ignitor

Other forms of ignitor

plural

ignitors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ignitor

What does ignitor mean?

ignitor means "a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ignitor?

ignitor has 3 syllables: ig-ni-tor. The stress falls on "ig".

What is another word for ignitor?

Close synonyms include igniter, lighter, lighter, light, igniter. 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 ignitor a common word?

ignitor 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.