accretive

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   growing by accretion

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Questions about accretive

What does accretive mean?

accretive means "growing by accretion".

How many syllables are in accretive?

accretive has 3 syllables: ac-cre-tive. The stress falls on "ac".

Is accretive a common word?

accretive 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.