three-figure

1. 1.

   (of numbers) written with three figures

   “100 through 999 are three-figure numbers”

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Questions about three-figure

What does three-figure mean?

three-figure means "(of numbers) written with three figures".

How many syllables are in three-figure?

three-figure has 3 syllables and divides as three--fi-gure 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 three-figure a common word?

three-figure 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.