amyloid

Other forms of amyloid

plural

amyloids·

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 amyloid

What does amyloid mean?

amyloid means "a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amyloid?

amyloid has 3 syllables: am-y-loid. The stress falls on "am". In IPA it is /ˈæmɪˌlɔɪd/.

What is another word for amyloid?

Close synonyms include starchlike, amylaceous, amyloidal, farinaceous. 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 amyloid a common word?

amyloid 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 amyloid?

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