chiton

Other forms of chiton

plural

chitons·

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 chiton

What does chiton mean?

chiton means "a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chiton?

chiton has 2 syllables: chi-ton. The stress falls on "chi".

What is another word for chiton?

Close synonyms include coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle, polyplacophore. 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 chiton a common word?

chiton 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.