handbuild

Questions about handbuild

What does handbuild mean?

handbuild means "make without a potter's wheel".

How many syllables are in handbuild?

handbuild has 3 syllables and divides as hand-bu-ild 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 handbuild?

Close synonyms include hand-build, coil. 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 handbuild a common word?

handbuild 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.