spin-dry

1. 1.

   dry (clothes) by spinning and making use of centrifugal forces

   Broaderdry

Questions about spin-dry

What does spin-dry mean?

spin-dry means "dry (clothes) by spinning and making use of centrifugal forces".

How many syllables are in spin-dry?

spin-dry has 2 syllables and divides as spin--dry 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 spin-dry a common word?

spin-dry 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.