pastille

Questions about pastille

What does pastille mean?

pastille means "a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat".

How many syllables are in pastille?

pastille has 3 syllables and divides as pa-sti-lle 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 pastille?

Close synonyms include cough drop, troche, pastil. 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 pastille a common word?

pastille 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.