angina

Other forms of angina

plural

anginas·

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 angina

What does angina mean?

angina means "any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in angina?

angina has 3 syllables: an-gi-na. The stress falls on "gi". In IPA it is /ænˈdʒaɪnə/.

What is another word for angina?

Close synonyms include angina pectoris. 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 angina a common word?

angina 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.

What rhymes with angina?

1 word rhymes with angina. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.