dulcorate

Other forms of dulcorate

past tense

dulcorated·

present participle

dulcorating·

third person

dulcorates·

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 dulcorate

What does dulcorate mean?

dulcorate means "make sweeter in taste".

How many syllables are in dulcorate?

dulcorate has 3 syllables and divides as dul-co-rate 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.

What is another word for dulcorate?

Close synonyms include sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate. 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 dulcorate a common word?

dulcorate 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.