afro-wig

1. 1.

   a wig that gives the appearance of an Afro hairdo

   Broaderhairpiece

Questions about afro-wig

What does afro-wig mean?

afro-wig means "a wig that gives the appearance of an Afro hairdo".

How many syllables are in afro-wig?

afro-wig has 3 syllables and divides as a-fro--wig under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is afro-wig a common word?

afro-wig is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.