soft-haired

1. 1.

   having soft hair

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Questions about soft-haired

What does soft-haired mean?

soft-haired means "having soft hair".

How many syllables are in soft-haired?

soft-haired has 2 syllables and divides as sof-t-haired 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-haired a common word?

soft-haired 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.