cacography

Questions about cacography

What does cacography mean?

cacography means "poor handwriting".

How many syllables are in cacography?

cacography has 4 syllables and divides as ca-co-gra-phy 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 cacography?

Close synonyms include scribble, scratch, scrawl. 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 cacography a common word?

cacography 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.