rust-resistant

1. 1.

   resistant to rust

   Similarrustless

Questions about rust-resistant

What does rust-resistant mean?

rust-resistant means "resistant to rust".

How many syllables are in rust-resistant?

rust-resistant has 4 syllables and divides as ru-st-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 rust-resistant a common word?

rust-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.