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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
repellant is a noun and adjective meaning "a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water". It carries 5 recorded senses.
serving or tending to repel
“he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful”
“I find his obsequiousness repellent”
highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
“a disgusting smell”
“distasteful language”
“a loathsome disease”
“the idea of eating meat is repellent to me”
“revolting food”
“a wicked stench”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for repellant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.