inhalant

Other forms of inhalant

plural

inhalants·

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 inhalant

What does inhalant mean?

inhalant means "something that is inhaled". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inhalant?

inhalant has 3 syllables: in-ha-lant. The stress falls on "ha". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈheɪlənt/.

What is another word for inhalant?

Close synonyms include inhalation. 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 inhalant a common word?

inhalant 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.