knee-length

1. 1.

   extending to the knee

Questions about knee-length

What does knee-length mean?

knee-length means "extending to the knee".

How many syllables are in knee-length?

knee-length has 2 syllables and divides as knee--length 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 knee-length a common word?

knee-length 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.