catacorner

Questions about catacorner

What does catacorner mean?

catacorner means "slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line".

How many syllables are in catacorner?

catacorner has 4 syllables: ca-ta-cor-ner. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for catacorner?

Close synonyms include cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered. 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 catacorner a common word?

catacorner 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.