nickel

1. 1.

   plate with nickel

   “nickel the plate”

   Broaderplate

Other forms of nickel

plural

nickels·

past tense or participle

nickelled

present participle

nickelling

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 nickel

What does nickel mean?

nickel means "a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nickel?

nickel has 2 syllables: nic-kel. The stress falls on "nic". In IPA it is /ˈnɪkəl/.

What is another word for nickel?

Close synonyms include Ni, atomic number 28, nickel note. 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 nickel a common word?

nickel 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.

What rhymes with nickel?

1 word rhymes with nickel. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.