magnet

Other forms of magnet

plural

magnets·

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 magnet

What does magnet mean?

magnet means "(physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in magnet?

magnet has 2 syllables: mag-net. The stress falls on "mag". In IPA it is /ˈmæɡnət/.

What is another word for magnet?

Close synonyms include attraction, attractor, attracter, attractive feature. 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 magnet a common word?

magnet 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 magnet?

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