bowlegged

Questions about bowlegged

What does bowlegged mean?

bowlegged means "have legs that curve outward at the knees".

How many syllables are in bowlegged?

bowlegged has 2 syllables and divides as bowleg-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.

What is another word for bowlegged?

Close synonyms include bandy, bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg. 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 bowlegged a common word?

bowlegged is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.