calorie

Other forms of calorie

plural

calories·

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 calorie

What does calorie mean?

calorie means "a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in calorie?

calorie has 3 syllables: cal-o-rie. The stress falls on "cal". In IPA it is /ˈkælɚi/.

What is another word for calorie?

Close synonyms include kilogram calorie, kilocalorie, large calorie, nutritionist's calorie, gram calorie. 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 calorie a common word?

calorie 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.