xerotes

Other forms of xerotes

plural

xeroteses·

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 xerotes

What does xerotes mean?

xerotes means "the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)".

How many syllables are in xerotes?

xerotes has 2 syllables and divides as xero-tes 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 xerotes?

Close synonyms include dryness, waterlessness. 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 xerotes a common word?

xerotes 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.