candlepin

1. 1.

   a bowling pin that is thin by comparison with a tenpin

   Broaderbowling pin

Other forms of candlepin

plural

candlepins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about candlepin

What does candlepin mean?

candlepin means "a bowling pin that is thin by comparison with a tenpin".

How many syllables are in candlepin?

candlepin has 3 syllables: cand-le-pin. The stress falls on "cand".

Is candlepin a common word?

candlepin 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.