lipid

Other forms of lipid

plural

lipids·

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 lipid

What does lipid mean?

lipid means "an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates)".

How many syllables are in lipid?

lipid has 2 syllables: li-pid. The stress falls on "li". In IPA it is /ˈlaɪpəd/.

What is another word for lipid?

Close synonyms include lipide, lipoid. 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 lipid a common word?

lipid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.