three-legged

1. 1.

   having or as if having three legs

   “a three-legged stool”

   “a three-legged race”

   Similarlegged

Questions about three-legged

What does three-legged mean?

three-legged means "having or as if having three legs".

How many syllables are in three-legged?

three-legged has 2 syllables: three-leg-ged. The stress falls on "three-leg".

Is three-legged a common word?

three-legged 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.