aerophagia

1. 1.

   swallowing air (usually followed by belching and discomfort and flatulence)

   Broaderswallow

Other forms of aerophagia

plural

aerophagias·

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 aerophagia

What does aerophagia mean?

aerophagia means "swallowing air (usually followed by belching and discomfort and flatulence)".

How many syllables are in aerophagia?

aerophagia has 6 syllables and divides as a-e-ro-pha-gi-a 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.