pen-and-ink

1. 1.

   a drawing executed with pen and ink

   Broaderdrawing

Questions about pen-and-ink

What does pen-and-ink mean?

pen-and-ink means "a drawing executed with pen and ink".

How many syllables are in pen-and-ink?

pen-and-ink has 3 syllables and divides as pe-n-an-d-ink 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 pen-and-ink a common word?

pen-and-ink 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.