horse-race

1. 1.

   compete in a horse race

   Broaderrace

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Questions about horse-race

What does horse-race mean?

horse-race means "compete in a horse race".

How many syllables are in horse-race?

horse-race has 3 syllables and divides as hor-se--race 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 horse-race a common word?

horse-race 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.