dry-wall

1. 1.

   construct with drywall

   “dry-wall the basement of the house”

   Broaderconstruct

Questions about dry-wall

What does dry-wall mean?

dry-wall means "construct with drywall".

How many syllables are in dry-wall?

dry-wall has 2 syllables and divides as dry--wall 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 dry-wall a common word?

dry-wall 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.