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: hec-to-li-ter. The stress falls on "to".

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.