feces

Other forms of feces

plural

feceses·

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 feces

What does feces mean?

feces means "solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels".

How many syllables are in feces?

feces has 2 syllables: fe-ces. The stress falls on "fe". In IPA it is /ˈfiˌsiz/.

What is another word for feces?

Close synonyms include fecal matter, faecal matter, faeces, BM, stool. 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 feces a common word?

feces is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 feces?

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