wafer-thin

1. 1.

   very thin

   “wafer-thin sheets of metal”

   Similarthin

1. 1.

   very thin

   “it was cut wafer-thin”

Questions about wafer-thin

What does wafer-thin mean?

wafer-thin means "very thin". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wafer-thin?

wafer-thin has 3 syllables: wa-fer--thin. The stress falls on "wa".

Is wafer-thin a common word?

wafer-thin 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.