sulfide

Other forms of sulfide

plural

sulfides·

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 sulfide

What does sulfide mean?

sulfide means "a compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive".

How many syllables are in sulfide?

sulfide has 2 syllables: sul-fide. The stress falls on "sul". In IPA it is /ˈsʌlˌfaɪd/.

What is another word for sulfide?

Close synonyms include sulphide. 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 sulfide a common word?

sulfide 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 sulfide?

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