osmotically

1. 1.

   by means of osmosis

Questions about osmotically

What does osmotically mean?

osmotically means "by means of osmosis".

How many syllables are in osmotically?

osmotically has 5 syllables and divides as o-smo-ti-cal-ly 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 osmotically a common word?

osmotically 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.