mike

Other forms of mike

plural

mikes·

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 mike

What does mike mean?

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

How many syllables are in mike?

mike has 1 syllable: mike. In IPA it is /ˈmaɪk/.

What is another word for mike?

Close synonyms include microphone, 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 mike a common word?

mike is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.