sheepfold

Questions about sheepfold

What does sheepfold mean?

sheepfold means "a pen for sheep".

How many syllables are in sheepfold?

sheepfold has 2 syllables and divides as sheep-fold 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 sheepfold?

Close synonyms include fold, sheep pen, sheepcote. 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 sheepfold a common word?

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