gamete

Other forms of gamete

plural

gametes·

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 gamete

What does gamete mean?

gamete means "a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes".

How many syllables are in gamete?

gamete has 2 syllables: gam-ete. The stress falls on "gam". In IPA it is /ˈɡæmit/.

Is gamete a common word?

gamete 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.