tonguelike

1. 1.

   resembling a tongue in form or function

   Similartongued

Questions about tonguelike

What does tonguelike mean?

tonguelike means "resembling a tongue in form or function".

How many syllables are in tonguelike?

tonguelike has 3 syllables and divides as ton-gue-like 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 tonguelike a common word?

tonguelike 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.