henry

Other forms of henry

plural

henries·

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 henry

What does henry mean?

henry means "a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in henry?

henry has 2 syllables: hen-ry. The stress falls on "hen". In IPA it is /ˈhɛnɹi/.

What is another word for henry?

Close synonyms include H, William Henry, Patrick Henry, Joseph Henry. 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 henry a common word?

henry is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.