boride
/ˈboɹˌaɪd/noun
boride is a noun meaning “The B³⁻ anion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-O-R-I-D-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of boride is borides.
What does boride mean?
noun
- 1
The B³⁻ anion.
- 2
Any binary compound of boron and a more electropositive element.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce boride?
- US /ˈboɹˌaɪd/
Boride has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-boride.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of boride
- borides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is boride?
Boride appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Boride in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the B3− anion:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does boride come from?
From bor(on) + -ide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).