motor-assisted

1. 1.

   relying on an engine for propulsion in addition to muscle power

   “a motor-assisted bicycle”

   Similarassisted

Questions about motor-assisted

What does motor-assisted mean?

motor-assisted means "relying on an engine for propulsion in addition to muscle power".

How many syllables are in motor-assisted?

motor-assisted has 5 syllables and divides as mo-to-r-as-si-sted 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 motor-assisted a common word?

motor-assisted 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.