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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
paperknife is a noun meaning "dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books". It carries one recorded sense.
dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for paperknife come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.