barelegged

1. 1.

   having the legs uncovered by clothing

   “barelegged children on the beach”

   Similarunclothed

Questions about barelegged

What does barelegged mean?

barelegged means "having the legs uncovered by clothing".

How many syllables are in barelegged?

barelegged has 3 syllables and divides as bare-leg-ged 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 barelegged a common word?

barelegged 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.