fair-and-square

1. 1.

   just and honest

   Similarfair

Questions about fair-and-square

What does fair-and-square mean?

fair-and-square means "just and honest".

How many syllables are in fair-and-square?

fair-and-square has 4 syllables and divides as fa-i-r-and--square 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 fair-and-square a common word?

fair-and-square 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.