fossa

Other forms of fossa

plural

fossae

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 fossa

What does fossa mean?

fossa means "a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fossa?

fossa has 2 syllables: fos-sa. The stress falls on "fos".

What is another word for fossa?

Close synonyms include pit, genus Fossa, fossa cat, Cryptoprocta ferox. 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 fossa a common word?

fossa 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.