sb

Other forms of sb

plural

sbs·

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 sb

What does sb mean?

sb means "a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sb?

sb has 1 syllable: sb.

What is another word for sb?

Close synonyms include antimony, atomic number 51, Bachelor of Science, BS. 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 sb a common word?

sb 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.