resistor

Other forms of resistor

plural

resistors·

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 resistor

What does resistor mean?

resistor means "an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current".

How many syllables are in resistor?

resistor has 3 syllables: re-sis-tor. The stress falls on "sis". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈzɪstɚ/.

What is another word for resistor?

Close synonyms include resistance. 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 resistor a common word?

resistor 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.

What rhymes with resistor?

1 word rhymes with resistor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.