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say it: bilt
built is an adjective meaning "(used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness". It is pronounced /ˈbɪlt/ — bilt. It carries one recorded sense.
(used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness
“the built liquid detergents”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for built come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.