hardback

Other forms of hardback

plural

hardbacks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hardback

What does hardback mean?

hardback means "a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hardback?

hardback has 2 syllables: hard-back. The stress falls on "hard". In IPA it is /ˈhɑɹdˌbæk/.

What is another word for hardback?

Close synonyms include hardcover, hardbacked, hardbound, hardcover. 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 hardback a common word?

hardback 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.

What rhymes with hardback?

34 words rhyme with hardback. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.