napalm

1. 1.

   gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flamethrowers

   Broadergasoline

Other forms of napalm

plural

napalms·

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 napalm

What does napalm mean?

napalm means "gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flamethrowers".

How many syllables are in napalm?

napalm has 2 syllables: na-palm. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˈneɪpɑm/.

Is napalm a common word?

napalm is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.