polyvalency

Other forms of polyvalency

plural

polyvalencies·

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 polyvalency

What does polyvalency mean?

polyvalency means "(chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in polyvalency?

polyvalency has 5 syllables: po-ly-va-len-cy. The stress falls on "va".

What is another word for polyvalency?

Close synonyms include polyvalence, multivalence, multivalency, polyvalence. 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 polyvalency a common word?

polyvalency 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.