short-handled

1. 1.

   having a short handle

Questions about short-handled

What does short-handled mean?

short-handled means "having a short handle".

How many syllables are in short-handled?

short-handled has 2 syllables and divides as short-hand-led 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 short-handled a common word?

short-handled 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.