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fifth gear

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English

Syllables
fifth gear
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The fifth of the gears of a transmission; in many motor vehicles built in the 1970s or later, it is the top gear, being the overdrive gear, although in the 21st century some vehicles have transmissions with yet more gears (e.g., 6, 7, 8), among both manual transmissions and automatic transmissions.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

fifth gears (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

downshift upshift low gear first gear second gear third gear fourth gear top gear

Synonyms

fifth[Appendix:Glossary

Questions

What does fifth gear mean?
The fifth of the gears of a transmission; in many motor vehicles built in the 1970s or later, it is the top gear, being the overdrive gear, although in the 21st century some vehicles have transmissions with yet more gears (e.g., 6, 7, 8), among both manual transmissions and automatic transmissions.

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