cyclone

Other forms of cyclone

plural

cyclones·

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 cyclone

What does cyclone mean?

cyclone means "(meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cyclone?

cyclone has 2 syllables: cy-clone. The stress falls on "clone". In IPA it is /sɪˈkloʊn/.

What is the opposite of cyclone?

The recorded antonyms are anticyclone.

Is cyclone a common word?

cyclone 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.

What rhymes with cyclone?

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