putrescent

1. 1.

   becoming putrid

   “a trail lined by putrescent carcasses”

   Similarstale

Questions about putrescent

What does putrescent mean?

putrescent means "becoming putrid".

How many syllables are in putrescent?

putrescent has 3 syllables and divides as pu-tre-scent 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 putrescent a common word?

putrescent 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.