effluent

Other forms of effluent

plural

effluents·

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 effluent

What does effluent mean?

effluent means "water mixed with waste matter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in effluent?

effluent has 3 syllables: ef-flu-ent. The stress falls on "ef". In IPA it is /ˈɛfluənt/.

What is another word for effluent?

Close synonyms include wastewater, sewer water, outflowing. 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 effluent a common word?

effluent 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.