oxide

Other forms of oxide

plural

oxides·

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 oxide

What does oxide mean?

oxide means "any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical".

How many syllables are in oxide?

oxide has 2 syllables: ox-ide. The stress falls on "ox". In IPA it is /ˈɑkˌsaɪd/.

Is oxide a common word?

oxide 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 oxide?

46 words rhyme with oxide. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.