curie

Other forms of curie

plural

curies·

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 curie

What does curie mean?

curie means "a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in curie?

curie has 2 syllables: cu-rie. The stress falls on "rie". In IPA it is /kjʊˈɹi/.

What is another word for curie?

Close synonyms include Ci, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska. 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 curie a common word?

curie 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.

What rhymes with curie?

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