bonelet

Questions about bonelet

What does bonelet mean?

bonelet means "a small bone; especially one in the middle ear".

How many syllables are in bonelet?

bonelet has 3 syllables and divides as bo-ne-let 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 bonelet?

Close synonyms include ossicle, ossiculum. 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 bonelet a common word?

bonelet 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.