cretaceous

Other forms of cretaceous

plural

cretaceouses·

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 cretaceous

What does cretaceous mean?

cretaceous means "abounding in chalk". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cretaceous?

cretaceous has 3 syllables: cre-ta-ceous. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /kɹɪˈteɪʃɪs/.

What is another word for cretaceous?

Close synonyms include Cretaceous period. 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 cretaceous a common word?

cretaceous 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.