aldehyde

Other forms of aldehyde

plural

aldehydes·

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 aldehyde

What does aldehyde mean?

aldehyde means "any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids".

How many syllables are in aldehyde?

aldehyde has 3 syllables and divides as al-de-hyde 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.

Is aldehyde a common word?

aldehyde 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.