phreatic

1. 1.

   of or relating to ground water

Questions about phreatic

What does phreatic mean?

phreatic means "of or relating to ground water".

How many syllables are in phreatic?

phreatic has 3 syllables and divides as phre-a-tic 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 phreatic a common word?

phreatic 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.