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say it: SEE-luhnt
sealant is a noun meaning "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)". It is pronounced /ˈsilənt/ — SEE-luhnt. It carries one recorded sense.
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)
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 sealant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.