how to pronounce soft

/sɒft/

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soft is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of soft in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… you you square a soft brexit with the …”

meaning of soft

Soft means not hard or tough.

soft frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word soft occurs in english on average 61.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics soft can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that soft can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;