hardcover

Other forms of hardcover

plural

hardcovers·

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 hardcover

What does hardcover mean?

hardcover 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 hardcover?

hardcover has 3 syllables: hard-cov-er. The stress falls on "hard". In IPA it is /ˈhɑɹdˌkʌvɚ/.

What is another word for hardcover?

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

hardcover 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 hardcover?

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