face-harden

1. 1.

   harden steel by adding carbon

   Broaderharden

Questions about face-harden

What does face-harden mean?

face-harden means "harden steel by adding carbon".

How many syllables are in face-harden?

face-harden has 4 syllables and divides as fa-ce--har-den 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 face-harden a common word?

face-harden 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.