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crossmember

/ˈkɹɔsˌmɛmbɚ/noun

crossmember is spelled C-R-O-S-S-M-E-M-B-E-R: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, crossmember means “A transverse structural support” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crossmember is crossmembers.

How many letters and syllables are in crossmember?

Letters11: C-R-O-S-S-M-E-M-B-E-R
In writingabout once in every 38 million words; the 189,524th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is crossmember?

Crossmember appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce crossmember?

  • US /ˈkɹɔsˌmɛmbɚ/
  • US /ˈkɹɑsˌmɛmbɚ/
  • UK /ˈkɹɒsˌmɛmbə/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of crossmember

  • crossmembers plural
  • cross-member

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does crossmember mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A transverse structural support.

  2. 2

    A beam lying crosswise; a rail.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Crossmember in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a traverse support:

LanguageWords
GermanQuerträger

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does crossmember come from?

From cross- + member.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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