leotards

Questions about leotards

What does leotards mean?

leotards means "skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls".

How many syllables are in leotards?

leotards has 3 syllables and divides as le-o-tards 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.

What is another word for leotards?

Close synonyms include tights. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leotards a common word?

leotards is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.