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say it: WEL-tur-wayt
welterweight is a noun meaning "a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase)". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase)
an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds
a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds
a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for welterweight come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.