soybean

Other forms of soybean

plural

soybeans·

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 soybean

What does soybean mean?

soybean means "a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soybean?

soybean has 2 syllables: soy-bean. The stress falls on "soy". In IPA it is /ˈsɔɪˌbin/.

What is another word for soybean?

Close synonyms include soy, soya bean, soy, soya, soya bean. 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 soybean a common word?

soybean 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.

What rhymes with soybean?

2 words rhyme with soybean. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.