card-house

1. 1.

   an unstable construction with playing cards

   “he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed”

   Synonymshouse of cardscardhousecardcastle

   Broaderstructure

Questions about card-house

What does card-house mean?

card-house means "an unstable construction with playing cards".

How many syllables are in card-house?

card-house has 2 syllables: card--house. The stress falls on "card-".

What is another word for card-house?

Close synonyms include house of cards, cardhouse, cardcastle. 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 card-house a common word?

card-house 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.