fender-bender

1. 1.

   a collision between motor vehicles that produces minor damage

   Broadercollision

Questions about fender-bender

What does fender-bender mean?

fender-bender means "a collision between motor vehicles that produces minor damage".

How many syllables are in fender-bender?

fender-bender has 4 syllables and divides as fen-der--ben-der 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 fender-bender a common word?

fender-bender 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.