hectometer

Questions about hectometer

What does hectometer mean?

hectometer means "a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters".

How many syllables are in hectometer?

hectometer has 4 syllables and divides as hec-to-me-ter under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hectometer?

Close synonyms include hectometre, hm. 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 hectometer a common word?

hectometer 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.