balanitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of the head of the penis

   Broaderinflammation

Other forms of balanitis

plural

balanitises·

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 balanitis

What does balanitis mean?

balanitis means "inflammation of the head of the penis".

How many syllables are in balanitis?

balanitis has 4 syllables and divides as ba-la-ni-tis 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.