monad

Other forms of monad

plural

monades

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 monad

What does monad mean?

monad means "(chemistry) an atom having a valence of one". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in monad?

monad has 2 syllables: mo-nad. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ˈmoʊnæd/.

What is another word for monad?

Close synonyms include monas. 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 monad a common word?

monad 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.