radiograph

Other forms of radiograph

plural

radiographs·

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 radiograph

What does radiograph mean?

radiograph means "a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)".

How many syllables are in radiograph?

radiograph has 4 syllables and divides as ra-di-o-graph 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.

What is another word for radiograph?

Close synonyms include radiogram, shadowgraph, skiagraph, skiagram. 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 radiograph a common word?

radiograph 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.