breakaxe

Questions about breakaxe

What does breakaxe mean?

breakaxe means "West Indian timber tree having very hard wood".

How many syllables are in breakaxe?

breakaxe has 3 syllables and divides as bre-a-kaxe 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 breakaxe?

Close synonyms include breakax, break-axe, Sloanea jamaicensis. 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 breakaxe a common word?

breakaxe 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.