rarefy

Other forms of rarefy

past tense or participle

rarefied

present participle

rarefying·

third person

rarefies·

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 rarefy

What does rarefy mean?

rarefy means "lessen the density or solidity of". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rarefy?

rarefy has 3 syllables: rar-e-fy. The stress falls on "rar". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛɹəfaɪ/.

What is another word for rarefy?

Close synonyms include sublimate, subtilize, attenuate. 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 rarefy a common word?

rarefy 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.