ice-cold

1. 1.

   as cold as ice

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Questions about ice-cold

What does ice-cold mean?

ice-cold means "as cold as ice".

How many syllables are in ice-cold?

ice-cold has 3 syllables and divides as i-ce--cold 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 ice-cold a common word?

ice-cold is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.