threepenny

Questions about threepenny

What does threepenny mean?

threepenny means "used of nail size; 1 1/8 in long". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in threepenny?

threepenny has 3 syllables and divides as three-pen-ny 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.

What is another word for threepenny?

Close synonyms include sixpenny, twopenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny. 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 threepenny a common word?

threepenny 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.