nonflammable

1. 1.

   impossible to ignite

   Similarnoncombustible

Questions about nonflammable

What does nonflammable mean?

nonflammable means "impossible to ignite".

How many syllables are in nonflammable?

nonflammable has 4 syllables and divides as non-flam-ma-ble 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 nonflammable a common word?

nonflammable 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.