air-tight

Questions about air-tight

What does air-tight mean?

air-tight means "having no weak points". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in air-tight?

air-tight has 2 syllables and divides as air--tight under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for air-tight?

Close synonyms include airtight, airtight, gas-tight. 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 air-tight a common word?

air-tight 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.