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soft hyphens

soft hyphens is the plural of soft hyphen.

Meaning of soft hyphen

Noun

soft hyphen (plural soft hyphens)

  1. A generally invisible text character marking a point where hyphenation can occur without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text is later reflowed.
    Synonyms:
    discretionary hyphen

Questions about soft hyphens

What is soft hyphens the plural of?
Soft hyphens is the plural of soft hyphen.

Words near soft hyphens in the dictionary

  1. soft gs
  2. soft hand
  3. soft handed
  4. soft hands
  5. soft hyphen
  6. soft hyphens
  7. soft in the head
  8. soft inquiries
  9. soft inquiry
  10. soft jade
  11. soft jades

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