stiletto heel

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   a very high narrow heel on women's shoes

   Synonymsspike heelspike

   Broaderheel

Questions about stiletto heel

What does stiletto heel mean?

stiletto heel means "a very high narrow heel on women's shoes".

What is another word for stiletto heel?

Close synonyms include spike heel, spike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stiletto heel a common word?

stiletto heel 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.