liter

Other forms of liter

plural

liters·

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 liter

What does liter mean?

liter means "a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)".

How many syllables are in liter?

liter has 2 syllables: li-ter. The stress falls on "li". In IPA it is /ˈlitɚ/.

What is another word for liter?

Close synonyms include litre, l, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre. 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 liter a common word?

liter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 liter?

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