chassis

Other forms of chassis

plural

chassises·

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 chassis

What does chassis mean?

chassis means "alternative names for the body of a human being". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chassis?

chassis has 2 syllables: chas-sis. The stress falls on "chas". In IPA it is /ˈtʃæsi/.

What is another word for chassis?

Close synonyms include human body, physical body, material body, soma, build. 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 chassis a common word?

chassis 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.