soft-cover

Questions about soft-cover

What does soft-cover mean?

soft-cover means "a book with paper covers".

How many syllables are in soft-cover?

soft-cover has 3 syllables and divides as soft--co-ver 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.

What is another word for soft-cover?

Close synonyms include paperback book, paper-back book, paperback, softback book, softback. 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 soft-cover a common word?

soft-cover 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.