soughingly

1. 1.

   with a soft sound

   “the branches of the trees moved soughingly in the breeze”

Questions about soughingly

What does soughingly mean?

soughingly means "with a soft sound".

How many syllables are in soughingly?

soughingly has 3 syllables and divides as soug-hin-gly 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 soughingly a common word?

soughingly 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.