handwork

Questions about handwork

What does handwork mean?

handwork means "a work produced by hand labor".

How many syllables are in handwork?

handwork has 2 syllables: han-dwork. The stress falls on "han".

What is another word for handwork?

Close synonyms include handicraft, handcraft, handiwork. 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 handwork a common word?

handwork 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.