vapourific

Questions about vapourific

What does vapourific mean?

vapourific 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 vapourific?

vapourific has 4 syllables and divides as va-pou-ri-fic under the regular spelling rules. 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 vapourific?

Close synonyms include evaporable, vaporific, 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 vapourific a common word?

vapourific 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.