diarrhoea

Other forms of diarrhoea

plural

diarrhoeas·

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 diarrhoea

What does diarrhoea mean?

diarrhoea means "frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor".

How many syllables are in diarrhoea?

diarrhoea has 4 syllables: di-arr-ho-ea. The stress falls on "ho". In IPA it is /ˌdaɪɚˈiə/.

What is another word for diarrhoea?

Close synonyms include diarrhea, looseness of the bowels, looseness. 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 diarrhoea a common word?

diarrhoea 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 diarrhoea?

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