self-confessed

1. 1.

   owned up to

   “his admitted doubts”

   “the conceded error”

   “a confessed murderer”

   “a self-confessed plagiarist”

   Similaracknowledged

Questions about self-confessed

What does self-confessed mean?

self-confessed means "owned up to".

How many syllables are in self-confessed?

self-confessed has 3 syllables and divides as self--confes-sed 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 self-confessed a common word?

self-confessed 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.