finger-paint

1. 1.

   apply colors with one's fingers

   Broaderpaint

   art

Questions about finger-paint

What does finger-paint mean?

finger-paint means "apply colors with one's fingers".

How many syllables are in finger-paint?

finger-paint has 3 syllables and divides as fin-ger--paint 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 finger-paint a common word?

finger-paint 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.