mendeleyev

Questions about mendeleyev

What does mendeleyev mean?

mendeleyev means "Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)".

How many syllables are in mendeleyev?

mendeleyev has 3 syllables and divides as men-de-leyev under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for mendeleyev?

Close synonyms include Mendeleev, Dmitri Mendeleyev, Dmitri Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev. 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 mendeleyev a common word?

mendeleyev 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.