stiff-haired

1. 1.

   having stiff hair

   Similarhairy

Questions about stiff-haired

What does stiff-haired mean?

stiff-haired means "having stiff hair".

How many syllables are in stiff-haired?

stiff-haired has 2 syllables and divides as stiff--haired 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 stiff-haired a common word?

stiff-haired 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.