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say it: HAHY-drahyd
hydride is a noun meaning "any binary compound formed by the union of hydrogen and other elements". It is pronounced /ˈhaɪˌdɹaɪd/ — HAHY-drahyd. It carries one recorded sense.
any binary compound formed by the union of hydrogen and other elements
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hydride come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.