sulphide

Other forms of sulphide

plural

sulphides·

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 sulphide

What does sulphide mean?

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

How many syllables are in sulphide?

sulphide has 2 syllables and divides as sul-phide under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sulphide?

Close synonyms include sulfide. 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 sulphide a common word?

sulphide 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.