toroid

Other forms of toroid

plural

toroids·

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 toroid

What does toroid mean?

toroid means "the doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in toroid?

toroid has 2 syllables: to-roid. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for toroid?

Close synonyms include torus. 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 toroid a common word?

toroid 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.