screw-topped

1. 1.

   having a lid with a spiral groove

   Similartopped

Questions about screw-topped

What does screw-topped mean?

screw-topped means "having a lid with a spiral groove".

How many syllables are in screw-topped?

screw-topped has 2 syllables and divides as screw-top-ped 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 screw-topped a common word?

screw-topped 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.