softwood

Questions about softwood

What does softwood mean?

softwood means "wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)".

How many syllables are in softwood?

softwood has 2 syllables: sof-twood. The stress falls on "sof". In IPA it is /ˈsɔfˌtwʊd/.

What is another word for softwood?

Close synonyms include deal. 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 softwood a common word?

softwood 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.

What rhymes with softwood?

2 words rhyme with softwood. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.