no-trump

1. 1.

   a version of contract bridge in which no suit is designated as trump for the duration of the hand

   Broadercontract

Questions about no-trump

What does no-trump mean?

no-trump means "a version of contract bridge in which no suit is designated as trump for the duration of the hand".

How many syllables are in no-trump?

no-trump has 2 syllables and divides as no--trump 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 no-trump a common word?

no-trump 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.