soda

Other forms of soda

plural

sodas·

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 soda

What does soda mean?

soda means "a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soda?

soda has 2 syllables: so-da. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˈsoʊdə/.

What is another word for soda?

Close synonyms include sodium carbonate, washing soda, sal soda, soda ash, pop. 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 soda a common word?

soda is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.