swaybacked

Questions about swaybacked

What does swaybacked mean?

swaybacked means "having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)".

How many syllables are in swaybacked?

swaybacked has 2 syllables and divides as swaybac-ked 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.

What is another word for swaybacked?

Close synonyms include dipped, lordotic, swayback. 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 swaybacked a common word?

swaybacked 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.