hg

Other forms of hg

plural

hgs·

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 hg

What does hg mean?

hg means "a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hg?

hg has 1 syllable: hg.

What is another word for hg?

Close synonyms include mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, atomic number 80, hectogram. 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 hg a common word?

hg 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.