smoke-free

1. 1.

   free of smoke

   “smoke-free offices and restaurants”

   Similarsmokeless

Questions about smoke-free

What does smoke-free mean?

smoke-free means "free of smoke".

How many syllables are in smoke-free?

smoke-free has 3 syllables and divides as smo-ke--free 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 smoke-free a common word?

smoke-free 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.