carbon

Other forms of carbon

plural

carbons·

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 carbon

What does carbon mean?

carbon means "an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carbon?

carbon has 2 syllables: car-bon. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɑɹbən/.

What is another word for carbon?

Close synonyms include C, atomic number 6, carbon paper, carbon copy. 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 carbon a common word?

carbon is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 carbon?

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