square-built

1. 1.

   broad and solidly built

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Questions about square-built

What does square-built mean?

square-built means "broad and solidly built".

How many syllables are in square-built?

square-built has 4 syllables and divides as squa-re--bu-ilt 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 square-built a common word?

square-built 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.