custom-built

Questions about custom-built

What does custom-built mean?

custom-built means "an item made to the customer's specifications". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in custom-built?

custom-built has 4 syllables: cu-stom--bu-ilt. The stress falls on "stom-".

What is another word for custom-built?

Close synonyms include custom-made, made-to-order. 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 custom-built a common word?

custom-built 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.