catty-corner

Questions about catty-corner

What does catty-corner mean?

catty-corner means "slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line".

How many syllables are in catty-corner?

catty-corner has 4 syllables: cat-ty--cor-ner. The stress falls on "ty-".

What is another word for catty-corner?

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

catty-corner 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.