fourpenny

1. 1.

   used of nail size; 1 3/8 in or 3.8 cm long

   Similarsized

Questions about fourpenny

What does fourpenny mean?

fourpenny means "used of nail size; 1 3/8 in or 3.8 cm long".

How many syllables are in fourpenny?

fourpenny has 3 syllables and divides as four-pen-ny 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 fourpenny a common word?

fourpenny 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.