catercorner

Questions about catercorner

What does catercorner mean?

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

How many syllables are in catercorner?

catercorner has 4 syllables: ca-ter-cor-ner. The stress falls on "ter".

What is another word for catercorner?

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

catercorner 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.