open-plan

1. 1.

   (of rooms or buildings) having large rooms with few dividing partitions

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Questions about open-plan

What does open-plan mean?

open-plan means "(of rooms or buildings) having large rooms with few dividing partitions".

How many syllables are in open-plan?

open-plan has 3 syllables and divides as o-pen--plan 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 open-plan a common word?

open-plan 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.