alveolitis

Other forms of alveolitis

plural

alveolitises·

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 alveolitis

What does alveolitis mean?

alveolitis means "inflammation in the socket of a tooth; sometimes occurs after a tooth is extracted and a blood clot fails to form". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alveolitis?

alveolitis has 5 syllables: al-ve-o-li-tis. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for alveolitis?

Close synonyms include dry socket. 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 alveolitis a common word?

alveolitis is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.