Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

moustached

/ˈmʌstæʃt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English

Syllables: mous-tached
IPA: /ˈmʌstæʃt/

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a moustache.

Example Sentences

"British military officers are usually moustached."
"[T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules."
"One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!"

Etymology

From moustache + -ed.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈmʌstæʃt/
British English: /məˈstɑːʃt/

Inflected Forms

mustached (alternative)

Derived Forms

unmoustached

Phrases

moustached kingfisher moustached warbler

Synonyms

bemoustached mustachioed

Questions

How do you pronounce moustached?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmʌstæʃt/.
What does moustached mean?: Having a moustache.
Where does moustached come from?: From moustache + -ed.

How to pronounce moustached

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