ropiness

Questions about ropiness

What does ropiness mean?

ropiness means "the property of being cohesive and sticky".

How many syllables are in ropiness?

ropiness has 3 syllables and divides as ro-pi-ness 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 ropiness?

Close synonyms include cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, tackiness. 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 ropiness a common word?

ropiness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.