flatulence

Other forms of flatulence

plural

flatulences·

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 flatulence

What does flatulence mean?

flatulence means "a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flatulence?

flatulence has 3 syllables and divides as fla-tu-lence 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.

What is another word for flatulence?

Close synonyms include flatulency, gas, turgidity, turgidness. 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 flatulence a common word?

flatulence 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.