belly-land

1. 1.

   land on the underside without the landing gear

   Broaderland

   air travel

Questions about belly-land

What does belly-land mean?

belly-land means "land on the underside without the landing gear".

How many syllables are in belly-land?

belly-land has 3 syllables and divides as bel-ly--land 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 belly-land a common word?

belly-land 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.