carpus

Other forms of carpus

plural

carpi

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 carpus

What does carpus mean?

carpus means "a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones".

How many syllables are in carpus?

carpus has 2 syllables: car-pus. The stress falls on "car".

What is another word for carpus?

Close synonyms include wrist, wrist joint, radiocarpal joint, articulatio radiocarpea. 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 carpus a common word?

carpus 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.