detritus

Other forms of detritus

plural

detrituses·

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 detritus

What does detritus mean?

detritus means "the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in detritus?

detritus has 3 syllables: de-tri-tus. The stress falls on "tri". In IPA it is /dɪˈtɹaɪtəs/.

What is another word for detritus?

Close synonyms include debris, dust, junk, rubble. 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 detritus a common word?

detritus 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.