attritional

1. 1.

   relating to or caused by attrition

Questions about attritional

What does attritional mean?

attritional means "relating to or caused by attrition".

How many syllables are in attritional?

attritional has 5 syllables and divides as at-tri-ti-o-nal 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.

Is attritional a common word?

attritional 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.