four-wheeler

1. 1.

   a hackney carriage with four wheels

   Broaderhackney

Questions about four-wheeler

What does four-wheeler mean?

four-wheeler means "a hackney carriage with four wheels".

How many syllables are in four-wheeler?

four-wheeler has 3 syllables and divides as four--whee-ler 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-wheeler a common word?

four-wheeler 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.