salinity

Questions about salinity

What does salinity mean?

salinity means "the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in salinity?

salinity has 4 syllables: sa-lin-i-ty. The stress falls on "lin". In IPA it is /səˈlɪnəˌti/.

What is another word for salinity?

Close synonyms include salt, saltiness, brininess. 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 salinity a common word?

salinity 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 salinity?

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