iodine

Other forms of iodine

plural

iodines·

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 iodine

What does iodine mean?

iodine means "a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in iodine?

iodine has 3 syllables: i-o-dine. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪəˌdaɪn/.

What is another word for iodine?

Close synonyms include iodin, I, atomic number 53, tincture of iodine. 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 iodine a common word?

iodine is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 iodine?

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