syphon

Other forms of syphon

plural

syphons·

past tense

syphonned·

present participle

syphonning·

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 syphon

What does syphon mean?

syphon means "a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in syphon?

syphon has 2 syllables: sy-phon. The stress falls on "sy". In IPA it is /ˈsaɪfən/.

What is another word for syphon?

Close synonyms include siphon, siphon, siphon, siphon off. 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 syphon a common word?

syphon 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.

What rhymes with syphon?

1 word rhymes with syphon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.