pliant

Other forms of pliant

comparative

plianter·

superlative

pliantest·

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 pliant

What does pliant mean?

pliant means "capable of being influenced or formed". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pliant?

pliant has 2 syllables: pli-ant. The stress falls on "pli". In IPA it is /ˈplaɪənt/.

What is another word for pliant?

Close synonyms include plastic, ductile, malleable, pliable, tensile. 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 pliant a common word?

pliant 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.

What rhymes with pliant?

1 word rhymes with pliant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.