Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wheelband

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wheel-band
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The tyre of a wheel.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Yor high-flown cheps oft fyel and brick, But we hev a'ways yet been yable Te keep the wheelband i' the nick Though oft wi' but a bareish tyeble."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *bandiz Old English bend Middle English band English band English wheelband From wheel + band.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

wheelbands (plural)

Questions

What does wheelband mean?: The tyre of a wheel.
Where does wheelband come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *bandiz Old English bend Middle English band English band English wheelband From wheel + band.

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