accretionary

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   marked or produced by accretion

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Questions about accretionary

What does accretionary mean?

accretionary means "marked or produced by accretion".

How many syllables are in accretionary?

accretionary has 6 syllables: ac-cre-ti-o-na-ry. The stress falls on "o".

Is accretionary a common word?

accretionary 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.