mizzenmast

Questions about mizzenmast

What does mizzenmast mean?

mizzenmast means "third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy".

How many syllables are in mizzenmast?

mizzenmast has 3 syllables and divides as miz-zen-mast 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 mizzenmast?

Close synonyms include mizenmast, mizzen, mizen. 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 mizzenmast a common word?

mizzenmast 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.