vaporific

Questions about vaporific

What does vaporific mean?

vaporific means "(used of substances) capable of being volatilized". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vaporific?

vaporific has 4 syllables: va-po-ri-fic. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for vaporific?

Close synonyms include evaporable, vapourific, vaporizable, vapourisable, volatilizable. 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 vaporific a common word?

vaporific 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.