payload

Other forms of payload

plural

payloads·

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 payload

What does payload mean?

payload means "the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in payload?

payload has 2 syllables: pay-load. The stress falls on "pay". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪˌloʊd/.

What is another word for payload?

Close synonyms include warhead, load, cargo, lading, freight. 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 payload a common word?

payload is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 payload?

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