upended

1. 1.

   turned up on end

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Questions about upended

What does upended mean?

upended means "turned up on end".

How many syllables are in upended?

upended has 3 syllables: u-pen-ded. The stress falls on "u".

Is upended a common word?

upended 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.