snow-capped

1. 1.

   (of mountains) capped with a covering of snow

Questions about snow-capped

What does snow-capped mean?

snow-capped means "(of mountains) capped with a covering of snow".

How many syllables are in snow-capped?

snow-capped has 2 syllables and divides as snow-cap-ped 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 snow-capped a common word?

snow-capped 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.