three-pronged

1. 1.

   having three prongs

   Similardivided

Questions about three-pronged

What does three-pronged mean?

three-pronged means "having three prongs".

How many syllables are in three-pronged?

three-pronged has 2 syllables and divides as three-pron-ged 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-pronged a common word?

three-pronged 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.