split-pea

1. 1.

   dried hulled pea; used in soup

   Broadergreen pea

Questions about split-pea

What does split-pea mean?

split-pea means "dried hulled pea; used in soup".

How many syllables are in split-pea?

split-pea has 3 syllables and divides as split--pe-a 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 split-pea a common word?

split-pea 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.