nd

Other forms of nd

plural

nds·

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 nd

What does nd mean?

nd means "a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nd?

nd has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. 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 nd?

Close synonyms include neodymium, atomic number 60, North Dakota, Peace Garden State, N.D.. 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 nd a common word?

nd 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.