hectoliter

Questions about hectoliter

What does hectoliter mean?

hectoliter means "a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters".

How many syllables are in hectoliter?

hectoliter has 4 syllables and divides as hec-to-li-ter 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 hectoliter?

Close synonyms include hectolitre, hl. 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 hectoliter a common word?

hectoliter 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.