catty-cornered

Questions about catty-cornered

What does catty-cornered mean?

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

How many syllables are in catty-cornered?

catty-cornered has 4 syllables: cat-ty-cor-ne-red. The stress falls on "ty-cor".

What is another word for catty-cornered?

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

catty-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.