buttocks

Other forms of buttocks

plural

buttockses·

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 buttocks

What does buttocks mean?

buttocks means "the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on".

How many syllables are in buttocks?

buttocks has 2 syllables: but-tocks. The stress falls on "but". In IPA it is /ˈbʌtəks/.

What is another word for buttocks?

Close synonyms include nates, arse, butt, backside, bum. 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 buttocks a common word?

buttocks 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.