dermal

Other forms of dermal

comparative

dermaller·

superlative

dermallest·

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 dermal

What does dermal mean?

dermal means "of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dermal?

dermal has 2 syllables: der-mal. The stress falls on "der". In IPA it is /ˈdɝməl/.

What is another word for dermal?

Close synonyms include cuticular, epidermal, epidermic, dermic, cutaneous. 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 dermal a common word?

dermal 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 dermal?

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