dropsy

Other forms of dropsy

plural

dropsies·

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 dropsy

What does dropsy mean?

dropsy means "swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities".

How many syllables are in dropsy?

dropsy has 2 syllables: drop-sy. The stress falls on "drop". In IPA it is /ˈdɹɑpsi/.

What is another word for dropsy?

Close synonyms include edema, oedema, hydrops. 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 dropsy a common word?

dropsy 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.