softcover
adjective, noun
softcover is an adjective meaning “Having covers made of paper or thin cardboard; paperback” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-O-F-T-C-O-V-E-R, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does softcover mean?
adjective
- 1
Having covers made of paper or thin cardboard; paperback.
noun
- 1
A book having such covers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of softcover
- sc
- softcovers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is softcover?
Softcover appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th 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).
How do you abbreviate softcover?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of softcover: sc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Softcover in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of a book: having a cover made of paper:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | broché |
| German | Taschenbuch |
| Portuguese | capa comum |
| Spanish | tapa blanda |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does softcover come from?
From soft + cover.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).