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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 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.