steep-sided

1. 1.

   having very steep sides

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Questions about steep-sided

What does steep-sided mean?

steep-sided means "having very steep sides".

How many syllables are in steep-sided?

steep-sided has 3 syllables and divides as steep--si-ded 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 steep-sided a common word?

steep-sided 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.