coxa

Other forms of coxa

plural

coxae

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 coxa

What does coxa mean?

coxa means "the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum".

How many syllables are in coxa?

coxa has 2 syllables and divides as cox-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for coxa?

Close synonyms include hip, hip joint, articulatio coxae. 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 coxa a common word?

coxa 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.