pigeon-toed

1. 1.

   having feet that turn inward

   Antonymssplayfooted

Questions about pigeon-toed

What does pigeon-toed mean?

pigeon-toed means "having feet that turn inward".

How many syllables are in pigeon-toed?

pigeon-toed has 4 syllables and divides as pi-ge-on--toed 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.

What is the opposite of pigeon-toed?

The recorded antonyms are splayfooted.

Is pigeon-toed a common word?

pigeon-toed 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.