six-footer

1. 1.

   a person who is at least six feet tall

   Broaderperson

Questions about six-footer

What does six-footer mean?

six-footer means "a person who is at least six feet tall".

How many syllables are in six-footer?

six-footer has 3 syllables and divides as six--foo-ter 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 six-footer a common word?

six-footer 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.