alkali

Other forms of alkali

plural

alkalies

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 alkali

What does alkali mean?

alkali means "any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alkali?

alkali has 3 syllables: al-ka-li. The stress falls on "al". In IPA it is /ˈælkəˌlaɪ/.

What is another word for alkali?

Close synonyms include base. 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 alkali a common word?

alkali 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.

What rhymes with alkali?

8 words rhyme with alkali. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.