sixth-former

1. 1.

   a student in the sixth form

   Broaderstudent

   United Kingdom

Questions about sixth-former

What does sixth-former mean?

sixth-former means "a student in the sixth form".

How many syllables are in sixth-former?

sixth-former has 3 syllables and divides as sixth--for-mer 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 sixth-former a common word?

sixth-former 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.