call-board

1. 1.

   a bulletin board backstage in a theater

   Broaderbulletin board

Questions about call-board

What does call-board mean?

call-board means "a bulletin board backstage in a theater".

How many syllables are in call-board?

call-board has 3 syllables and divides as call--bo-ard 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 call-board a common word?

call-board 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.