Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
ill-shapen is an adjective meaning "so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly". It carries one recorded sense.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ill-shapen come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.