volatilise

Questions about volatilise

What does volatilise mean?

volatilise means "make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor".

How many syllables are in volatilise?

volatilise has 4 syllables and divides as vo-la-ti-lise 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 volatilise?

Close synonyms include volatilize. 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 volatilise a common word?

volatilise 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.