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: fa-ce--har-den. The stress falls on "ce-".

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.