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wheelwell

wheelwell is the alternative form of wheel well.

Meaning of wheel well

Noun

wheel well (plural wheel wells)

  1. The section of a car or truck under the fender, where the wheel has space to rotate.
  2. The areas in an airplane's fuselage for the landing gear to retract into.

Forms of wheelwell

pluralwheelwells

Questions about wheelwell

What is wheelwell the alternative form of?
Wheelwell is the alternative form of wheel well.

Words near wheelwell in the dictionary

  1. wheeltapper
  2. wheeltappers
  3. wheeltapping
  4. wheelway
  5. wheelways
  6. wheelwell
  7. wheelwells
  8. wheelwise
  9. wheelwoman
  10. wheelwomen
  11. wheelwork

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheelwell (page history and authors); wheel well (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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