spherule

1. 1.

   a small sphere

   Broaderball

Other forms of spherule

plural

spherules·

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 spherule

What does spherule mean?

spherule means "a small sphere".

How many syllables are in spherule?

spherule has 3 syllables: sphe-ru-le. The stress falls on "sphe".

Is spherule a common word?

spherule 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.