amphibole

Other forms of amphibole

plural

amphiboles·

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 amphibole

What does amphibole mean?

amphibole means "a mineral or mineral variety belonging to the amphibole group".

How many syllables are in amphibole?

amphibole has 3 syllables: am-phibo-le. The stress falls on "am". In IPA it is /ˈæmfəˌboʊl/.

Is amphibole a common word?

amphibole 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 amphibole?

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