alveolus

Other forms of alveolus

plural

alveoli

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 alveolus

What does alveolus mean?

alveolus means "a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alveolus?

alveolus has 4 syllables: al-ve-o-lus. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for alveolus?

Close synonyms include air sac, air cell, tooth 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 alveolus a common word?

alveolus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.