three-ply

1. 1.

   having a thickness made up of three layers or strands

   “three-ply cloth”

   “three-ply yarn”

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Questions about three-ply

What does three-ply mean?

three-ply means "having a thickness made up of three layers or strands".

How many syllables are in three-ply?

three-ply has 2 syllables and divides as three--ply 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 three-ply a common word?

three-ply 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.