makeweight

Questions about makeweight

What does makeweight mean?

makeweight means "anything added to fill out a whole". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in makeweight?

makeweight has 3 syllables and divides as ma-ke-weight 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 makeweight?

Close synonyms include filler. 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 makeweight a common word?

makeweight 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.