hydrolise

Questions about hydrolise

What does hydrolise mean?

hydrolise means "make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis".

How many syllables are in hydrolise?

hydrolise has 3 syllables and divides as hy-dro-lise 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 hydrolise?

Close synonyms include hydrolize. 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 hydrolise a common word?

hydrolise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.