silt

Questions about silt

What does silt mean?

silt means "mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in silt?

silt has 1 syllable: silt. In IPA it is /ˈsɪlt/.

What is another word for silt?

Close synonyms include silt up. 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 silt a common word?

silt 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.