speech-endowed

1. 1.

   capable of speech

   “the speaking animal”

   Similararticulate

Questions about speech-endowed

What does speech-endowed mean?

speech-endowed means "capable of speech".

How many syllables are in speech-endowed?

speech-endowed has 3 syllables and divides as spee-ch-en-dowed 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 speech-endowed a common word?

speech-endowed 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.