tailor-make

Questions about tailor-make

What does tailor-make mean?

tailor-make means "create (clothes) with cloth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tailor-make?

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

Close synonyms include sew, tailor, custom-make, customize, customise. 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-make a common word?

tailor-make 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.