suicide

Other forms of suicide

plural

suicides·

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 suicide

What does suicide mean?

suicide means "the act of killing yourself". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suicide?

suicide has 3 syllables: su-i-cide. The stress falls on "su". In IPA it is /ˈsuəˌsaɪd/.

What is another word for suicide?

Close synonyms include self-destruction, self-annihilation, felo-de-se. 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 suicide a common word?

suicide is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 suicide?

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