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 and divides as pen-ta-va-lent under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.