inlay

Other forms of inlay

plural

inlays·

past tense or participle

inlaid

present participle

inlaying·

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 inlay

What does inlay mean?

inlay means "(dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inlay?

inlay has 2 syllables: in-lay. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnˌleɪ/.

Is inlay a common word?

inlay 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.

What rhymes with inlay?

21 words rhyme with inlay. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.