cavity

Other forms of cavity

plural

cavities·

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 cavity

What does cavity mean?

cavity means "a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cavity?

cavity has 3 syllables: cav-i-ty. The stress falls on "cav". In IPA it is /ˈkævəti/.

What is another word for cavity?

Close synonyms include pit, enclosed space, caries, dental caries, tooth decay. 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 cavity a common word?

cavity 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.