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clothbound

adjective

clothbound is spelled C-L-O-T-H-B-O-U-N-D: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, clothbound means “Wrapped in cloth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in clothbound?

Letters10: C-L-O-T-H-B-O-U-N-D
In writingabout once in every 55 million words; the 231,291st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is clothbound?

Clothbound appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of clothbound

  • cloth-bound

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does clothbound mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Wrapped in cloth.

    a clothbound cheese

  2. 2

    Bound with cloth, as opposed to other bindings such as paper or leather.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does clothbound come from?

From cloth + bound.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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