four-fold

Questions about four-fold

What does four-fold mean?

four-fold means "having four units or components". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in four-fold?

four-fold has 2 syllables: four--fold. The stress falls on "four-".

What is another word for four-fold?

Close synonyms include quadruple, quadruplicate, quadruplex, fourfold, quadruple. 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 four-fold a common word?

four-fold 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.