membrane

Other forms of membrane

plural

membranes·

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 membrane

What does membrane mean?

membrane means "a thin pliable sheet of material". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in membrane?

membrane has 2 syllables: mem-brane. The stress falls on "mem". In IPA it is /ˈmɛmˌbɹeɪn/.

What is another word for membrane?

Close synonyms include tissue layer. 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 membrane a common word?

membrane 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 membrane?

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