foreskin

Other forms of foreskin

plural

foreskins·

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 foreskin

What does foreskin mean?

foreskin means "a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foreskin?

foreskin has 2 syllables: fore-skin. The stress falls on "fore". In IPA it is /ˈfoʊɹˌskɪn/.

What is another word for foreskin?

Close synonyms include prepuce, prepuce. 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 foreskin a common word?

foreskin 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.

What rhymes with foreskin?

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