filament

Other forms of filament

plural

filaments·

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 filament

What does filament mean?

filament means "a very slender natural or synthetic fiber". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in filament?

filament has 3 syllables: fil-a-ment. The stress falls on "fil". In IPA it is /ˈfɪləmənt/.

What is another word for filament?

Close synonyms include fibril, strand, filum. 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 filament a common word?

filament 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.