barbate

Questions about barbate

What does barbate mean?

barbate means "having hair on the cheeks and chin".

How many syllables are in barbate?

barbate has 2 syllables and divides as bar-bate 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.

What is another word for barbate?

Close synonyms include bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barbate a common word?

barbate 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.