shock-headed

1. 1.

   having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair

   “shock-headed teenagers”

   Similarhairy

Questions about shock-headed

What does shock-headed mean?

shock-headed means "having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair".

How many syllables are in shock-headed?

shock-headed has 4 syllables and divides as shock--he-a-ded 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 shock-headed a common word?

shock-headed 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.