soil-building

1. 1.

   (of crops) planted to improve the quality of the soil

   Similarplanted

Questions about soil-building

What does soil-building mean?

soil-building means "(of crops) planted to improve the quality of the soil".

How many syllables are in soil-building?

soil-building has 4 syllables and divides as so-il--buil-ding 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 soil-building a common word?

soil-building 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.