refill

Other forms of refill

plural

refills·

past tense

refilled·

present participle

refilling·

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 refill

What does refill mean?

refill means "a prescription drug that is provided again". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in refill?

refill has 2 syllables: re-fill. The stress falls on "re". In IPA it is /ˈɹifɪl/.

What is another word for refill?

Close synonyms include replenish, fill again. 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 refill a common word?

refill is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.