coarsen

Questions about coarsen

What does coarsen mean?

coarsen means "make or become coarse or coarser". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coarsen?

coarsen has 3 syllables and divides as co-ar-sen 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.

Is coarsen a common word?

coarsen 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.