by-product

Questions about by-product

What does by-product mean?

by-product means "a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in by-product?

by-product has 3 syllables and divides as by--pro-duct 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.

What is another word for by-product?

Close synonyms include byproduct, byproduct, spin-off. 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 by-product a common word?

by-product 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.