gelded

Questions about gelded

What does gelded mean?

gelded means "(of a male animal) having the testicles removed".

How many syllables are in gelded?

gelded has 2 syllables and divides as gel-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.

What is another word for gelded?

Close synonyms include cut, emasculated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gelded a common word?

gelded 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.