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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
pell-mell is an adjective and adverb meaning "with undue hurry and confusion". It carries 2 recorded senses.
with undue hurry and confusion
“a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause”
“a pell-mell dash for the train”
in a wild or reckless manner
“dashing harum-scarum all over the place”
“running pell-mell up the stairs”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pell-mell come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.