caul

Other forms of caul

plural

cauls·

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 caul

What does caul mean?

caul means "part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in caul?

caul has 1 syllable: caul. In IPA it is /ˈkɑl/.

What is another word for caul?

Close synonyms include greater omentum, gastrocolic omentum, veil, embryonic membrane. 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 caul a common word?

caul 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.

What rhymes with caul?

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