diode

Other forms of diode

plural

diodes·

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 diode

What does diode mean?

diode means "a thermionic tube having two electrodes; used as a rectifier". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diode?

diode has 2 syllables: di-ode. The stress falls on "di". In IPA it is /ˈdaɪˌoʊd/.

What is another word for diode?

Close synonyms include rectifying tube, rectifying valve, semiconductor diode, junction rectifier, crystal rectifier. 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 diode a common word?

diode is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 diode?

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