propellant

Other forms of propellant

plural

propellants·

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 propellant

What does propellant mean?

propellant means "any substance that propels". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in propellant?

propellant has 3 syllables: pro-pel-lant. The stress falls on "pel". In IPA it is /pɹəˈpɛlənt/.

What is another word for propellant?

Close synonyms include propellent, propellent, propelling, propulsive. 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 propellant a common word?

propellant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 propellant?

2 words rhyme with propellant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.