bonelike

1. 1.

   resembling bone

   “a bonelike tumor”

   Similarbony

Questions about bonelike

What does bonelike mean?

bonelike means "resembling bone".

How many syllables are in bonelike?

bonelike has 3 syllables and divides as bo-ne-like 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 bonelike a common word?

bonelike 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.