thicket-forming

1. 1.

   tending to form dense thickets

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Questions about thicket-forming

What does thicket-forming mean?

thicket-forming means "tending to form dense thickets".

How many syllables are in thicket-forming?

thicket-forming has 4 syllables and divides as thic-ket--for-ming 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 thicket-forming a common word?

thicket-forming 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.