aerosol

Other forms of aerosol

plural

aerosols·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aerosol

What does aerosol mean?

aerosol means "a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aerosol?

aerosol has 3 syllables: aer-o-sol. The stress falls on "aer". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹəˌsɑl/.

What is another word for aerosol?

Close synonyms include aerosol container, aerosol can, aerosol bomb, spray can. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aerosol a common word?

aerosol is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 aerosol?

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