three-decker

Questions about three-decker

What does three-decker mean?

three-decker means "made with three slices of usually toasted bread". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in three-decker?

three-decker has 3 syllables: three--dec-ker. The stress falls on "three-".

What is another word for three-decker?

Close synonyms include club sandwich, triple-decker. 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 three-decker a common word?

three-decker 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.