belt-fed

1. 1.

   using belted ammunition

   Similarbelted

Questions about belt-fed

What does belt-fed mean?

belt-fed means "using belted ammunition".

How many syllables are in belt-fed?

belt-fed has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. 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 belt-fed a common word?

belt-fed 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.