accident-prone

1. 1.

   having more than the average number of accidents

   Similarinclined

Questions about accident-prone

What does accident-prone mean?

accident-prone means "having more than the average number of accidents".

How many syllables are in accident-prone?

accident-prone has 4 syllables: ac-ci-dent--prone. The stress falls on "ci".

Is accident-prone a common word?

accident-prone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.