fixer-upper

1. 1.

   a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price)

   Broaderdwelling

Questions about fixer-upper

What does fixer-upper mean?

fixer-upper means "a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price)".

How many syllables are in fixer-upper?

fixer-upper has 4 syllables and divides as fix-e-r-up-per 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 fixer-upper a common word?

fixer-upper is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.