handbreadth

Questions about handbreadth

What does handbreadth mean?

handbreadth means "any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand".

How many syllables are in handbreadth?

handbreadth has 3 syllables and divides as hand-bre-adth 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 handbreadth?

Close synonyms include handsbreadth. 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 handbreadth a common word?

handbreadth 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.