bristlelike

1. 1.

   resembling a bristle

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Questions about bristlelike

What does bristlelike mean?

bristlelike means "resembling a bristle".

How many syllables are in bristlelike?

bristlelike has 3 syllables and divides as brist-le-like 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 bristlelike a common word?

bristlelike 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.