slowcoach

Questions about slowcoach

What does slowcoach mean?

slowcoach means "someone who moves slowly".

How many syllables are in slowcoach?

slowcoach has 3 syllables and divides as slow-co-ach 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.

What is another word for slowcoach?

Close synonyms include plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slowcoach a common word?

slowcoach 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.