walk-up

Questions about walk-up

What does walk-up mean?

walk-up means "an apartment in a building without an elevator". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in walk-up?

walk-up has 2 syllables and divides as wal-k-up 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 walk-up?

Close synonyms include walk-up apartment. 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 walk-up a common word?

walk-up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.