speed-reading

1. 1.

   reading at speeds significantly faster than normal

   Broaderreading

Questions about speed-reading

What does speed-reading mean?

speed-reading means "reading at speeds significantly faster than normal".

How many syllables are in speed-reading?

speed-reading has 4 syllables and divides as spe-e-d-rea-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 speed-reading a common word?

speed-reading 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.