rough-sand

1. 1.

   sand roughly

   “rough-sand the door before painting it”

   Broadersandpaper

Questions about rough-sand

What does rough-sand mean?

rough-sand means "sand roughly".

How many syllables are in rough-sand?

rough-sand has 2 syllables and divides as rough--sand 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 rough-sand a common word?

rough-sand 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.