four-year-old

1. 1.

   four years of age

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Questions about four-year-old

What does four-year-old mean?

four-year-old means "four years of age".

How many syllables are in four-year-old?

four-year-old has 4 syllables and divides as fou-r-y-ea-r-old 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-year-old a common word?

four-year-old 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.