hayseed

Questions about hayseed

What does hayseed mean?

hayseed means "a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture".

How many syllables are in hayseed?

hayseed has 2 syllables and divides as hay-seed 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 hayseed?

Close synonyms include yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, bumpkin. 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 hayseed a common word?

hayseed 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.