buck-toothed

1. 1.

   having protruding upper front teeth

   Similartoothed

Questions about buck-toothed

What does buck-toothed mean?

buck-toothed means "having protruding upper front teeth".

How many syllables are in buck-toothed?

buck-toothed has 2 syllables and divides as buck--toothed 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 buck-toothed a common word?

buck-toothed 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.