egg-shaped

Questions about egg-shaped

What does egg-shaped mean?

egg-shaped means "rounded like an egg".

How many syllables are in egg-shaped?

egg-shaped has 2 syllables: egg--shaped. The stress falls on "egg-".

What is another word for egg-shaped?

Close synonyms include elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate. 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 egg-shaped a common word?

egg-shaped 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.