sandpapery

1. 1.

   having the abrasive texture of sandpaper

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Questions about sandpapery

What does sandpapery mean?

sandpapery means "having the abrasive texture of sandpaper".

How many syllables are in sandpapery?

sandpapery has 4 syllables and divides as sand-pa-pe-ry 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 sandpapery a common word?

sandpapery 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.