ampere

Other forms of ampere

plural

amperes·

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 ampere

What does ampere mean?

ampere means "a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ampere?

ampere has 2 syllables: am-pere. The stress falls on "am". In IPA it is /ˈæmˌpɝ/.

What is another word for ampere?

Close synonyms include international ampere, amp, A. 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 ampere a common word?

ampere 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.

What rhymes with ampere?

1 word rhymes with ampere. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.