less-traveled

1. 1.

   not visited by many travelers

   “the tourist's desire to visit less-traveled countries”

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Questions about less-traveled

What does less-traveled mean?

less-traveled means "not visited by many travelers".

How many syllables are in less-traveled?

less-traveled has 3 syllables and divides as les-s-trave-led 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 less-traveled a common word?

less-traveled 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.