asteroid

Other forms of asteroid

plural

asteroids·

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 asteroid

What does asteroid mean?

asteroid means "any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in asteroid?

asteroid has 3 syllables: as-te-roid. The stress falls on "as". In IPA it is /ˈæstɚˌɔɪd/.

What is another word for asteroid?

Close synonyms include star-shaped. 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 asteroid a common word?

asteroid is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 asteroid?

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