edentulous

1. 1.

   having lost teeth

   Similartoothless

Questions about edentulous

What does edentulous mean?

edentulous means "having lost teeth".

How many syllables are in edentulous?

edentulous has 4 syllables and divides as e-den-tu-lous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is edentulous a common word?

edentulous 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.