insecticide

Other forms of insecticide

plural

insecticides·

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 insecticide

What does insecticide mean?

insecticide means "a chemical used to kill insects".

How many syllables are in insecticide?

insecticide has 4 syllables: in-sec-ti-cide. The stress falls on "sec". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈsɛktəˌsaɪd/.

What is another word for insecticide?

Close synonyms include insect powder. 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 insecticide a common word?

insecticide 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 insecticide?

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