pegged-down

1. 1.

   fastened by pegs

   “the pegged-down branches of the plant will take root”

   Similarfastened

Questions about pegged-down

What does pegged-down mean?

pegged-down means "fastened by pegs".

How many syllables are in pegged-down?

pegged-down has 3 syllables and divides as peg-ged--down 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 pegged-down a common word?

pegged-down 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.