ununhexium

Questions about ununhexium

What does ununhexium mean?

ununhexium means "a radioactive transuranic element".

How many syllables are in ununhexium?

ununhexium has 5 syllables and divides as u-nun-hex-i-um 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 ununhexium?

Close synonyms include Uuh, element 116, atomic number 116. 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 ununhexium a common word?

ununhexium 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.