whipstitch

Questions about whipstitch

What does whipstitch mean?

whipstitch means "a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally".

How many syllables are in whipstitch?

whipstitch has 2 syllables and divides as whip-stitch 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 whipstitch?

Close synonyms include whipping, whipstitching. 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 whipstitch a common word?

whipstitch 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.