wax-chandler

1. 1.

   one who deals in wax candles

   Broaderchandler

Questions about wax-chandler

What does wax-chandler mean?

wax-chandler means "one who deals in wax candles".

How many syllables are in wax-chandler?

wax-chandler has 3 syllables and divides as wax--chand-ler 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 wax-chandler a common word?

wax-chandler 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.