cater-cornered

Questions about cater-cornered

What does cater-cornered mean?

cater-cornered means "slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line".

How many syllables are in cater-cornered?

cater-cornered has 4 syllables and divides as cater--cor-ne-red 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 cater-cornered?

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

cater-cornered 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.