unfrock

Questions about unfrock

What does unfrock mean?

unfrock means "divest of the frock; of church officials".

How many syllables are in unfrock?

unfrock has 2 syllables and divides as un-frock 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 unfrock?

Close synonyms include defrock. 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 unfrock a common word?

unfrock 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.