corpus

Other forms of corpus

plural

corpora

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 corpus

What does corpus mean?

corpus means "capital as contrasted with the income derived from it". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in corpus?

corpus has 2 syllables: cor-pus. The stress falls on "cor". In IPA it is /ˈkɔɹpəs/.

What is another word for corpus?

Close synonyms include principal, principal sum. 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 corpus a common word?

corpus 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.