refrigerate

Questions about refrigerate

What does refrigerate mean?

refrigerate means "preserve by chilling". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in refrigerate?

refrigerate has 4 syllables: re-frig-e-rate. The stress falls on "frig". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈfɹɪdʒɚˌeɪt/.

Is refrigerate a common word?

refrigerate 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 refrigerate?

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