soft-footed

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   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: soft--foo-ted. The stress falls on "soft-".

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.