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say it: NOO-trahn
neutron is a noun meaning "an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus". It is pronounced /ˈnuˌtɹɑn/ — NOO-trahn. It carries one recorded sense.
an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for neutron come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.