spectroscopy

Other forms of spectroscopy

plural

spectroscopies·

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 spectroscopy

What does spectroscopy mean?

spectroscopy means "the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra".

How many syllables are in spectroscopy?

spectroscopy has 4 syllables: spec-tro-sco-py. The stress falls on "tro". In IPA it is /spɛkˈtɹɑskəpi/.

What is another word for spectroscopy?

Close synonyms include spectrometry, spectroscopic analysis, spectrum analysis, spectrographic analysis. 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 spectroscopy a common word?

spectroscopy 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.