corrosive
/kəˈɹoʊsɪv/adjective, noun
corrosive is spelled C-O-R-R-O-S-I-V-E: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,070th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, corrosive means “Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in corrosive?
| Letters | 9: C-O-R-R-O-S-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 25,070th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is corrosive?
Corrosive appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,070th 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).
How do you pronounce corrosive?
- UK /kəˈɹəʊsɪv/
- US /kəˈɹoʊsɪv/
- Australia /kəˈɹəʉsɪv/
Corrosive has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-corrosive.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-corrosive.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with corrosive?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as corrosive from its last stressed vowel (/oʊsɪv/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of corrosive
- more corrosive comparative
- most corrosive superlative
- corrosives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does corrosive mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
- 2
Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
- 3
Destroying or undermining something gradually.
noun
- 1
That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
- 2
Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Corrosive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense destroying texture or substance of a body:
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 corrosive come from?
From Old French corrosif.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).