baptistry

Questions about baptistry

What does baptistry mean?

baptistry means "bowl for baptismal water".

How many syllables are in baptistry?

baptistry has 3 syllables and divides as bap-ti-stry 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.

What is another word for baptistry?

Close synonyms include baptismal font, baptistery, font. 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 baptistry a common word?

baptistry 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.