gauze

Other forms of gauze

plural

gauzes·

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 gauze

What does gauze mean?

gauze means "(medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gauze?

gauze has 1 syllable: gauze. In IPA it is /ˈɡɔz/.

What is another word for gauze?

Close synonyms include gauze bandage, netting, veiling. 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 gauze a common word?

gauze 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.