bowel

Other forms of bowel

plural

bowels·

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 bowel

What does bowel mean?

bowel means "the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus".

How many syllables are in bowel?

bowel has 2 syllables: bo-wel. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /ˈbaʊəl/.

What is another word for bowel?

Close synonyms include intestine, gut. 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 bowel a common word?

bowel is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.