sweet-scented

Questions about sweet-scented

What does sweet-scented mean?

sweet-scented means "having a natural fragrance".

How many syllables are in sweet-scented?

sweet-scented has 3 syllables and divides as sweet--scen-ted 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.

What is another word for sweet-scented?

Close synonyms include odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet. 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 sweet-scented a common word?

sweet-scented 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.