auscultatory

1. 1.

   of or relating to auscultation

Questions about auscultatory

What does auscultatory mean?

auscultatory means "of or relating to auscultation".

How many syllables are in auscultatory?

auscultatory has 5 syllables and divides as au-scul-ta-to-ry 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.

Is auscultatory a common word?

auscultatory 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.