carpal

1. 1.

   any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates

   Synonymscarpal bonewrist bone

   Broaderbone

   Narrowerscaphoid bonelunate bonetriquetralpisiformtrapeziumtrapezoidcapitatehamate

   Part ofwrist

1. 1.

   of or relating to the wrist

   “Carpal tunnel syndrome”

Other forms of carpal

plural

carpals·

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 carpal

What does carpal mean?

carpal means "any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carpal?

carpal has 2 syllables: car-pal. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɑɹpəl/.

What is another word for carpal?

Close synonyms include carpal bone, wrist bone. 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 carpal a common word?

carpal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 carpal?

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