half-and-half

Questions about half-and-half

What does half-and-half mean?

half-and-half means "half milk and half light cream; contains 10% to 18% butterfat". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in half-and-half?

half-and-half has 3 syllables and divides as hal-f-and--half 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 half-and-half a common word?

half-and-half 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.