fiddlestick

Questions about fiddlestick

What does fiddlestick mean?

fiddlestick means "a bow used in playing the violin".

How many syllables are in fiddlestick?

fiddlestick has 3 syllables and divides as fidd-le-stick 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.

What is another word for fiddlestick?

Close synonyms include violin bow. 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 fiddlestick a common word?

fiddlestick 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.