high-yield

1. 1.

   yielding a large amount of agricultural or industrial production

   Similarfruitful

Questions about high-yield

What does high-yield mean?

high-yield means "yielding a large amount of agricultural or industrial production".

How many syllables are in high-yield?

high-yield has 2 syllables and divides as hig-h-yield 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 high-yield a common word?

high-yield 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.