reply-paid

1. 1.

   with cost of reply prepaid by sender

   “reply-paid postcard”

   “reply-paid envelope”

   Similarpaid

Questions about reply-paid

What does reply-paid mean?

reply-paid means "with cost of reply prepaid by sender".

How many syllables are in reply-paid?

reply-paid has 3 syllables and divides as re-ply--paid under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is reply-paid a common word?

reply-paid 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.