silky-haired

1. 1.

   having hair that resembles silk

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Questions about silky-haired

What does silky-haired mean?

silky-haired means "having hair that resembles silk".

How many syllables are in silky-haired?

silky-haired has 3 syllables and divides as sil-ky-hai-red 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 silky-haired a common word?

silky-haired 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.