ultrasound

Other forms of ultrasound

plural

ultrasounds·

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 ultrasound

What does ultrasound mean?

ultrasound means "very high frequency sound; used in ultrasonography". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ultrasound?

ultrasound has 3 syllables: ul-tra-sound. The stress falls on "sound". In IPA it is /ˌʌltɹəˈsaʊnd/.

What is another word for ultrasound?

Close synonyms include sonography, ultrasonography, echography. 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 ultrasound a common word?

ultrasound is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 ultrasound?

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