buoyant

Other forms of buoyant

comparative

buoyanter·

superlative

buoyantest·

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 buoyant

What does buoyant mean?

buoyant means "tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buoyant?

buoyant has 2 syllables: buo-yant. The stress falls on "buo". In IPA it is /ˈbɔɪənt/.

What is another word for buoyant?

Close synonyms include floaty, chirpy, perky. 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 buoyant a common word?

buoyant 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 buoyant?

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