highchair

Questions about highchair

What does highchair mean?

highchair means "a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray".

How many syllables are in highchair?

highchair has 2 syllables and divides as high-chair 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 highchair?

Close synonyms include feeding chair. 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 highchair a common word?

highchair 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.