steroid

Other forms of steroid

plural

steroids·

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 steroid

What does steroid mean?

steroid means "any of several fat-soluble organic compounds having as a basis 17 carbon atoms in four rings; many have important physiological effects". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in steroid?

steroid has 2 syllables: ste-roid. The stress falls on "roid". In IPA it is /stɚˈɔɪd/.

What is another word for steroid?

Close synonyms include steroid hormone, sex hormone. 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 steroid a common word?

steroid 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 steroid?

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