bacillus

Other forms of bacillus

plural

bacilli

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 bacillus

What does bacillus mean?

bacillus means "aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil".

How many syllables are in bacillus?

bacillus has 3 syllables: ba-cil-lus. The stress falls on "cil". In IPA it is /bəˈsɪləs/.

What is another word for bacillus?

Close synonyms include B. 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 bacillus a common word?

bacillus 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 bacillus?

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