nuclide
/ˈn(j)uːklaɪd/noun
nuclide is spelled N-U-C-L-I-D-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nuclide means “An atomic nucleus specified by its atomic number and atomic mass” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nuclide is nuclides.
How many letters and syllables are in nuclide?
| Letters | 7: N-U-C-L-I-D-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 106,501st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 nuclide?
Nuclide appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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 nuclide?
- /ˈn(j)uːklaɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-nuclide.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with nuclide?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as nuclide.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: include.
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 nuclide
- nuclides plural
- nucleide
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nuclide mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An atomic nucleus specified by its atomic number and atomic mass.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Nuclide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense nucleus specified by its atomic number and atomic mass:
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 nuclide come from?
From nucleus + -ide. Coined by American chemist Truman Kohman in 1947 in an article in the American Journal of Physics, in which he defines nuclide as "a species of atom characterized by the constitution of its nucleus, in particular by the numbers of protons and neutrons in its nucleus."
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).