smooth-bodied

1. 1.

   having a smooth body

   Similarbodied

Questions about smooth-bodied

What does smooth-bodied mean?

smooth-bodied means "having a smooth body".

How many syllables are in smooth-bodied?

smooth-bodied has 3 syllables and divides as smooth--bo-died 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 smooth-bodied a common word?

smooth-bodied 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.