Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spot-clean

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English

Syllables: spot--clean
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To clean only those parts that are soiled, rather than cleaning the entire thing, area, etc.

Example Sentences

"“You can ruin the cloth if you try to spot-clean it,” warns Susan Fritz, co-owner of Denver Doll Hospital, a doll-cleaning and restoration business."
"If you need to spot-clean a dryclean-only fabric, try using Energine Cleaning Fluid, available at grocery and hardware stores."
"To spot-clean, you can either use a dry-cleaning solution or a very mild, nonperfumed soap or Woolite and water."

Inflected Forms

spot-cleans (present, singular) spot-cleaning (participle, present) spot-cleaned (participle, past) spot-cleaned (past) spotclean (alternative) spot clean (alternative)

Questions

What does spot-clean mean?: To clean only those parts that are soiled, rather than cleaning the entire thing, area, etc.

How to pronounce spot-clean

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