cancer

Other forms of cancer

plural

cancers·

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 cancer

What does cancer mean?

cancer means "any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cancer?

cancer has 2 syllables: can-cer. The stress falls on "can". In IPA it is /ˈkænsɚ/.

What is another word for cancer?

Close synonyms include malignant neoplastic disease, Crab, Cancer the Crab, Crab, genus Cancer. 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 cancer a common word?

cancer is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cancer?

1 word rhymes with cancer. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.