rattrap

Questions about rattrap

What does rattrap mean?

rattrap means "a difficult entangling situation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rattrap?

rattrap has 2 syllables and divides as rat-trap 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 rattrap a common word?

rattrap 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.