spike heel

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   a very high narrow heel on women's shoes

   Synonymsspikestiletto heel

   Broaderheel

Questions about spike heel

What does spike heel mean?

spike heel means "a very high narrow heel on women's shoes".

What is another word for spike heel?

Close synonyms include spike, stiletto heel. 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 spike heel a common word?

spike heel 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.