reflate

Other forms of reflate

past tense

reflated·

present participle

reflating·

third person

reflates·

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 reflate

What does reflate mean?

reflate means "economics: experience reflation". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reflate?

reflate has 2 syllables: re-flate. The stress falls on "flate". In IPA it is /ɹiˈfleɪt/.

Is reflate a common word?

reflate 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 reflate?

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