pesticide

Other forms of pesticide

plural

pesticides·

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 pesticide

What does pesticide mean?

pesticide means "a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)".

How many syllables are in pesticide?

pesticide has 3 syllables: pes-ti-cide. The stress falls on "pes". In IPA it is /ˈpɛstəˌsaɪd/.

Is pesticide a common word?

pesticide 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 pesticide?

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