gun-sight

Questions about gun-sight

What does gun-sight mean?

gun-sight means "a sight used for aiming a gun".

How many syllables are in gun-sight?

gun-sight has 2 syllables: gun--sight. The stress falls on "gun-".

What is another word for gun-sight?

Close synonyms include gunsight. 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 gun-sight a common word?

gun-sight 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.