unhorse

Questions about unhorse

What does unhorse mean?

unhorse means "alight from (a horse)".

How many syllables are in unhorse?

unhorse has 2 syllables and divides as un-horse 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 unhorse?

Close synonyms include dismount, light, get off, get down. 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 unhorse a common word?

unhorse 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.