sharp-pointed

1. 1.

   having a sharp point

Questions about sharp-pointed

What does sharp-pointed mean?

sharp-pointed means "having a sharp point".

How many syllables are in sharp-pointed?

sharp-pointed has 3 syllables and divides as sharp--poin-ted 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 sharp-pointed a common word?

sharp-pointed 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.