righthander

What does righthander mean?

righthander means "a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left".

How many syllables are in righthander?

righthander has 3 syllables and divides as righ-than-der 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 righthander?

Close synonyms include right-hander, right hander. 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 righthander a common word?

righthander 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for righthander come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.