three-lipped

1. 1.

   having three lips

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Questions about three-lipped

What does three-lipped mean?

three-lipped means "having three lips".

How many syllables are in three-lipped?

three-lipped has 2 syllables and divides as three-lip-ped 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-lipped a common word?

three-lipped 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.