ablate

Questions about ablate

What does ablate mean?

ablate means "wear away through erosion or vaporization". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ablate?

ablate has 2 syllables: ab-late. The stress falls on "late". In IPA it is /ˌʌˈbleɪt/.

Is ablate a common word?

ablate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ablate?

1 word rhymes with ablate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.