four-pronged

1. 1.

   having four prongs

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Questions about four-pronged

What does four-pronged mean?

four-pronged means "having four prongs".

How many syllables are in four-pronged?

four-pronged has 2 syllables and divides as four--pronged 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 four-pronged a common word?

four-pronged 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.