velvety

Questions about velvety

What does velvety mean?

velvety means "smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in velvety?

velvety has 3 syllables: vel-ve-ty. The stress falls on "vel". In IPA it is /ˈvɛlvəti/.

What is another word for velvety?

Close synonyms include velvet, velvet-textured, velvet. 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 velvety a common word?

velvety is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.