soft-footed

1. 1.

   sound of quiet gentle steps

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Questions about soft-footed

What does soft-footed mean?

soft-footed means "sound of quiet gentle steps".

How many syllables are in soft-footed?

soft-footed has 3 syllables and divides as soft--foo-ted 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 soft-footed a common word?

soft-footed 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.