rear-end

1. 1.

   collide with the rear end of

   “The car rear-ended me”

   Broaderhit

Questions about rear-end

What does rear-end mean?

rear-end means "collide with the rear end of".

How many syllables are in rear-end?

rear-end has 3 syllables and divides as re-a-r-end 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 rear-end a common word?

rear-end 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.