tinct

Other forms of tinct

past tense

tincted·

present participle

tincting·

third person

tincts·

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 tinct

What does tinct mean?

tinct means "color lightly".

How many syllables are in tinct?

tinct has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tinct?

Close synonyms include tint, tinge, touch. 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 tinct a common word?

tinct 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.