buoyancy

Other forms of buoyancy

plural

buoyancies·

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 buoyancy

What does buoyancy mean?

buoyancy means "cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buoyancy?

buoyancy has 3 syllables: buo-yan-cy. The stress falls on "buo". In IPA it is /ˈbɔɪənsi/.

What is another word for buoyancy?

Close synonyms include perkiness, airiness, irrepressibility. 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 buoyancy a common word?

buoyancy 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.