gingival

1. 1.

   of or relating to the gums

Questions about gingival

What does gingival mean?

gingival means "of or relating to the gums".

How many syllables are in gingival?

gingival has 3 syllables and divides as gin-gi-val 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.

Is gingival a common word?

gingival 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.