cheekbone

Other forms of cheekbone

plural

cheekbones·

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 cheekbone

What does cheekbone mean?

cheekbone means "the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek".

How many syllables are in cheekbone?

cheekbone has 2 syllables: cheek-bone. The stress falls on "cheek". In IPA it is /ˈtʃikˌboʊn/.

What is another word for cheekbone?

Close synonyms include zygomatic bone, zygomatic, malar, malar bone, jugal 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 cheekbone a common word?

cheekbone 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 cheekbone?

9 words rhyme with cheekbone. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.