pentavalent

1. 1.

   having a valence of five

   chemistry

Questions about pentavalent

What does pentavalent mean?

pentavalent means "having a valence of five".

How many syllables are in pentavalent?

pentavalent has 4 syllables: pen-ta-va-lent. The stress falls on "ta".

Is pentavalent a common word?

pentavalent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.