chloride

Other forms of chloride

plural

chlorides·

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 chloride

What does chloride mean?

chloride means "any compound containing a chlorine atom". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chloride?

chloride has 2 syllables: chlo-ride. The stress falls on "chlo". In IPA it is /ˈklɔɹaɪd/.

Is chloride a common word?

chloride 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.