hydroxide

Other forms of hydroxide

plural

hydroxides·

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 hydroxide

What does hydroxide mean?

hydroxide means "a compound of an oxide with water". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hydroxide?

hydroxide has 3 syllables: hy-drox-ide. The stress falls on "drox". In IPA it is /haɪˈdɹɑksaɪd/.

What is another word for hydroxide?

Close synonyms include hydrated oxide. 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 hydroxide a common word?

hydroxide 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.