better-known

1. 1.

   more familiar or renowned than the other of two

   “the better-known book of the two”

   Similarknown

Questions about better-known

What does better-known mean?

better-known means "more familiar or renowned than the other of two".

How many syllables are in better-known?

better-known has 3 syllables and divides as bet-ter-k-nown 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 better-known a common word?

better-known 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.