sandpile

What does sandpile mean?

sandpile means "a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in".

How many syllables are in sandpile?

sandpile has 3 syllables and divides as sand-pi-le 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 sandpile?

Close synonyms include sandbox, sandpit. 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 sandpile a common word?

sandpile 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 sandpile come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.