cogwheel

C3O1G2W4H4E1E1L1

noun

A gear wheel.

“Near-synonyms: cog, gear (often synonymous)”

Similar
gear wheelgearwheelcoggeargeared wheel
OriginEnglish wheel ← Middle English whel ← Old English hwēol →
RareScrabble 17
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nouncogwheel (plural cogwheels)

plural cogwheels

  1. A gear wheel.

    Near-synonyms: cog, gear (often synonymous)

    Synonyms: gear wheel, gearwheel, cog, gear

  2. attributiveSomething behaving in a jerky manner similar to a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA gear wheel.

Similar
gear wheelgearwheelcoggear

More synonyms by meaning

nouna toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

Similar
geargear wheelgeared wheel
Broader
wheel
Also see
geargear wheel

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gēw-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*gugā
  3. Proto-Germanic*kuggō
  4. Old Norse*koggr
  5. Middle Englishcogge
  6. Englishcog
  7. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
  8. Proto-Indo-European*kʷekʷléh₂
  9. Proto-Germanic*hweulō
  10. Old Englishhwēol
  11. Middle Englishwhel
  12. Englishwheel
  13. Englishcogwheel

From cog + wheel.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

cogwheel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cogwheel

MLA

“cogwheel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cogwheel. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cogwheel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cogwheel.

Source: cogwheel on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.