deliquescent

1. 1.

   (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air

   Similarhydrophilic

Questions about deliquescent

What does deliquescent mean?

deliquescent means "(especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air".

How many syllables are in deliquescent?

deliquescent has 4 syllables and divides as de-liq-ue-scent 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 deliquescent a common word?

deliquescent 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.