microphone

Other forms of microphone

plural

microphones·

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 microphone

What does microphone mean?

microphone means "device for converting sound waves into electrical energy".

How many syllables are in microphone?

microphone has 3 syllables: mi-cro-phone. The stress falls on "mi". In IPA it is /ˈmaɪkɹəˌfoʊn/.

What is another word for microphone?

Close synonyms include mike, mic. 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 microphone a common word?

microphone is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 microphone?

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