hydrocarbon

Other forms of hydrocarbon

plural

hydrocarbons·

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 hydrocarbon

What does hydrocarbon mean?

hydrocarbon means "an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen".

How many syllables are in hydrocarbon?

hydrocarbon has 4 syllables: hy-dro-car-bon. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˌhaɪdɹoʊˈkɑɹbən/.

Is hydrocarbon a common word?

hydrocarbon 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.

What rhymes with hydrocarbon?

2 words rhyme with hydrocarbon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.