tread-softly

Questions about tread-softly

What does tread-softly mean?

tread-softly means "a stinging herb of tropical America".

How many syllables are in tread-softly?

tread-softly has 4 syllables and divides as tre-ad--soft-ly 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 tread-softly?

Close synonyms include spurge nettle, devil nettle, pica-pica, Cnidoscolus urens, Jatropha urens. 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 tread-softly a common word?

tread-softly 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.