ductile

Other forms of ductile

comparative

ductiler·

superlative

ductilest·

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 ductile

What does ductile mean?

ductile means "easily influenced". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ductile?

ductile has 2 syllables: du-ctile. The stress falls on "du". In IPA it is /ˈdʌktəl/.

What is another word for ductile?

Close synonyms include malleable, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile. 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 ductile a common word?

ductile 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.