instilment

Questions about instilment

What does instilment mean?

instilment means "the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop".

How many syllables are in instilment?

instilment has 3 syllables and divides as in-stil-ment 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 instilment?

Close synonyms include instillation, instillment. 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 instilment a common word?

instilment 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.