meteoroid

Questions about meteoroid

What does meteoroid mean?

meteoroid means "(astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere".

How many syllables are in meteoroid?

meteoroid has 4 syllables and divides as me-te-o-roid 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 meteoroid?

Close synonyms include meteor. 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 meteoroid a common word?

meteoroid 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.