codefendant

Questions about codefendant

What does codefendant mean?

codefendant means "a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action".

How many syllables are in codefendant?

codefendant has 4 syllables and divides as co-de-fen-dant 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 codefendant?

Close synonyms include co-defendant. 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 codefendant a common word?

codefendant 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.