fontanel

Other forms of fontanel

plural

fontanels·

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 fontanel

What does fontanel mean?

fontanel means "any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus".

How many syllables are in fontanel?

fontanel has 3 syllables: fon-ta-nel. The stress falls on "fon".

What is another word for fontanel?

Close synonyms include fontanelle, soft spot. 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 fontanel a common word?

fontanel 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.