tailor-made

Questions about tailor-made

What does tailor-made mean?

tailor-made means "custom-made clothing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tailor-made?

tailor-made has 3 syllables and divides as tai-lor--made 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 tailor-made?

Close synonyms include bespoke, bespoken, made-to-order, tailored. 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 tailor-made a common word?

tailor-made is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.