sit-up

1. 1.

   a stomach exercise in which a person sits up from a supine position without using the arms for leverage

   Broaderstomach exercise

Questions about sit-up

What does sit-up mean?

sit-up means "a stomach exercise in which a person sits up from a supine position without using the arms for leverage".

How many syllables are in sit-up?

sit-up has 2 syllables and divides as si-t-up 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 sit-up a common word?

sit-up 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.