rot-resistant

1. 1.

   resistant to rotting

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Questions about rot-resistant

What does rot-resistant mean?

rot-resistant means "resistant to rotting".

How many syllables are in rot-resistant?

rot-resistant has 4 syllables and divides as ro-t-re-si-stant 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 rot-resistant a common word?

rot-resistant 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.