cruet-stand

1. 1.

   a stand for cruets containing various condiments

   Broaderrack

Questions about cruet-stand

What does cruet-stand mean?

cruet-stand means "a stand for cruets containing various condiments".

How many syllables are in cruet-stand?

cruet-stand has 2 syllables and divides as cruet--stand 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 cruet-stand a common word?

cruet-stand 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.