argentous

1. 1.

   relating to compounds in which silver is univalent

Questions about argentous

What does argentous mean?

argentous means "relating to compounds in which silver is univalent".

How many syllables are in argentous?

argentous has 3 syllables and divides as ar-gen-tous 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 argentous a common word?

argentous 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.