stair-carpet

1. 1.

   a strip of carpet for laying on stairs

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Questions about stair-carpet

What does stair-carpet mean?

stair-carpet means "a strip of carpet for laying on stairs".

How many syllables are in stair-carpet?

stair-carpet has 3 syllables and divides as stair--car-pet 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 stair-carpet a common word?

stair-carpet 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.