sealant

1. 1.

   a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface)

   Synonymssealer

   Broadersealing material

   Narrowercaulk

Other forms of sealant

plural

sealants·

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 sealant

What does sealant mean?

sealant means "a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface)".

How many syllables are in sealant?

sealant has 2 syllables: sea-lant. The stress falls on "sea". In IPA it is /ˈsilənt/.

What is another word for sealant?

Close synonyms include sealer. 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 sealant a common word?

sealant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.