tadpole-shaped

1. 1.

   shaped in the form of a tadpole

   Similarformed

Questions about tadpole-shaped

What does tadpole-shaped mean?

tadpole-shaped means "shaped in the form of a tadpole".

How many syllables are in tadpole-shaped?

tadpole-shaped has 4 syllables and divides as tad-pole--sha-ped 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 tadpole-shaped a common word?

tadpole-shaped 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.