premie

Questions about premie

What does premie mean?

premie means "an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation".

How many syllables are in premie?

premie has 2 syllables and divides as pre-mie 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 another word for premie?

Close synonyms include premature baby, preterm baby, premature infant, preterm infant, preemie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is premie a common word?

premie 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.