invitatory

1. 1.

   conveying an invitation

   “a brief invitatory note”

   Similarinviting

Questions about invitatory

What does invitatory mean?

invitatory means "conveying an invitation".

How many syllables are in invitatory?

invitatory has 5 syllables and divides as in-vi-ta-to-ry 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.

Is invitatory a common word?

invitatory 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.