scintilla

Other forms of scintilla

plural

scintillas·

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 scintilla

What does scintilla mean?

scintilla means "a tiny or scarcely detectable amount". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scintilla?

scintilla has 3 syllables: scin-til-la. The stress falls on "til". In IPA it is /sɪnˈtɪlə/.

What is another word for scintilla?

Close synonyms include shred, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen. 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 scintilla a common word?

scintilla 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 scintilla?

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