fourhanded

1. 1.

   (of card games) involving or requiring four players

   card game

Questions about fourhanded

What does fourhanded mean?

fourhanded means "(of card games) involving or requiring four players".

How many syllables are in fourhanded?

fourhanded has 3 syllables and divides as four-han-ded 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 fourhanded a common word?

fourhanded 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.