five-pointed

1. 1.

   having five points

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Questions about five-pointed

What does five-pointed mean?

five-pointed means "having five points".

How many syllables are in five-pointed?

five-pointed has 4 syllables and divides as fi-ve--poin-ted 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 five-pointed a common word?

five-pointed 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.