encephalopathy

Other forms of encephalopathy

plural

encephalopathies·

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 encephalopathy

What does encephalopathy mean?

encephalopathy means "any disorder or disease of the brain".

How many syllables are in encephalopathy?

encephalopathy has 6 syllables: en-cep-ha-lo-pa-thy. The stress falls on "lo". In IPA it is /ɛnˌsɛfəˈlɔpəθi/.

What is another word for encephalopathy?

Close synonyms include brain disorder, brain disease. 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 encephalopathy a common word?

encephalopathy 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.