ice-free

1. 1.

   free of ice and open to travel

   “an ice-free channel in the river”

   Similarunfrozen

Questions about ice-free

What does ice-free mean?

ice-free means "free of ice and open to travel".

How many syllables are in ice-free?

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

ice-free 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.