soap powder

1. 1.

   soap in powdered form mixed with alkaline builders

   Synonymsbuilt-soap powderwashing powder

   Broadersoap

Questions about soap powder

What does soap powder mean?

soap powder means "soap in powdered form mixed with alkaline builders".

What is another word for soap powder?

Close synonyms include built-soap powder, washing powder. 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 soap powder a common word?

soap powder 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.