insolate

Questions about insolate

What does insolate mean?

insolate means "expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun".

How many syllables are in insolate?

insolate has 3 syllables and divides as in-so-late 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 insolate?

Close synonyms include sun, solarize, solarise. 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 insolate a common word?

insolate 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.