Soft Spot

Definition: Soft Spot

Soft Spot

Noun

1. A place of especial vulnerability.

2. A sentimental affection; "she had a soft spot for her youngest son".

3. Any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus.

Specialty Definition: Soft Spot

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	Small areas in excavation or embankment, or the subsoil under an embankment, saturated with water and having a relatively small supporting power. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Soft Spot

Synonyms: fontanel (n), fontanelle (n), weak part (n), weak spot (n). (additional references)

Antonym: good part (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Soft Spot

English words defined with "soft spot": Cradle hole. (references)

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Modern Usage: Soft Spot

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You always had a soft spot for strays. (Smallville; writing credit: Richard Pinto; Sharat Sardana)
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Commercial Usage: Soft Spot

Domain	Title
Books	Little Chick: A Soft Spot Book (A Soft Spot Book) (reference) The soft spot (reference) (more book examples)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Soft Spot

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
soft spot shoes	107
soft spot	63
baby soft spot	24
clem snide soft spot	13
babys soft spot	10
infant soft spot	8
mikhails soft spot	4
baby head soft spot	3
babys head soft spot	2
clem review snide soft spot	2
soft spot sandal	2
soft spot supremes	2
head soft spot	2
soft spot sunken	2
black cement soft spot	2
fur soft spot	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Soft Spot

Language		Translations for "soft spot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		bloedt punkt. (various references)

Dutch		zwakke plek. (various references)

Finnish		pehmeä kohta. (various references)

French		endroit faible. (various references)

German		weiche Stelle, Faible für jemanden. (various references)

Greek		ασθενής θέσις. (various references)

Hungarian		sebezhető pont (sore spot, spot, underbelly), gyenge pont (foible, weak point). (various references)

Italian		zona soffice. (various references)

Pig Latin		oftsay otspay

Portuguese		ponto fraco (foible, frailty, weakness). (various references)

Russian		теплое местечко. (various references)

Spanish		punto débil (weak point, weakspot). (various references)

Swedish		svag punkt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Soft Spot

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-o-o-p-s-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: tosspot.
	-2 letters: pottos, spoofs, stoops.
	-3 letters: foots, ottos, poofs, posts, potto, softs, soots, spoof, spots, stoop, stops, stopt, tofts, toots, topos.
	-4 letters: foot, fops, foss, oops, oots, opts, otto, poof, post, pots, psst, soft, soot, sops, sots, spot, stop, toft, toot, tops, toss, tost, tots.
	-5 letters: fop, oft, oot, ops, opt, pot, sop, sos, sot.
	Words containing the letters "f-o-o-p-s-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: footsteps.
	+4 letters: toploftiness.
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