surfactant

Questions about surfactant

What does surfactant mean?

surfactant means "a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved".

How many syllables are in surfactant?

surfactant has 3 syllables: sur-fac-tant. The stress falls on "fac". In IPA it is /sɚˈfæktənt/.

What is another word for surfactant?

Close synonyms include wetting agent, wetter, surface-active agent. 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 surfactant a common word?

surfactant 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.