effloresce

Other forms of effloresce

past tense

effloresced·

present participle

efflorescing·

third person

effloresces·

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 effloresce

What does effloresce mean?

effloresce means "come into or as if into flower". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in effloresce?

effloresce has 3 syllables: ef-flo-resce. The stress falls on "ef".

What is another word for effloresce?

Close synonyms include burst forth, crystallize, crystalize, crystalise. 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 effloresce a common word?

effloresce is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.