refrigerant

Other forms of refrigerant

plural

refrigerants·

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 refrigerant

What does refrigerant mean?

refrigerant means "any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in refrigerant?

refrigerant has 4 syllables: re-frig-e-rant. The stress falls on "frig". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈfɹɪdʒɚənt/.

What is another word for refrigerant?

Close synonyms include refrigerating. 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 refrigerant a common word?

refrigerant 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.