frictional

1. 1.

   pertaining to or worked or produced by friction

   “frictional electricity”

   “frictional heat”

   “frictional gearing”

Questions about frictional

What does frictional mean?

frictional means "pertaining to or worked or produced by friction".

How many syllables are in frictional?

frictional has 4 syllables and divides as fric-ti-o-nal 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 frictional a common word?

frictional 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.