filter-tipped

1. 1.

   of a cigar or cigarette; having a tip designed to filter the smoke

   “filter-tipped cigarettes”

   Similartipped

Questions about filter-tipped

What does filter-tipped mean?

filter-tipped means "of a cigar or cigarette; having a tip designed to filter the smoke".

How many syllables are in filter-tipped?

filter-tipped has 3 syllables and divides as filter--tip-ped 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 filter-tipped a common word?

filter-tipped 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.