scarlet-crimson

1. 1.

   of crimson tinged with scarlet

   Similarchromatic

Questions about scarlet-crimson

What does scarlet-crimson mean?

scarlet-crimson means "of crimson tinged with scarlet".

How many syllables are in scarlet-crimson?

scarlet-crimson has 4 syllables and divides as scar-let--crim-son 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 scarlet-crimson a common word?

scarlet-crimson 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.