hectolitre

Questions about hectolitre

What does hectolitre mean?

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

How many syllables are in hectolitre?

hectolitre has 3 syllables and divides as hec-to-litre 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 hectolitre?

Close synonyms include hectoliter, 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 hectolitre a common word?

hectolitre 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.