glossopharyngeal

1. 1.

   pertaining to the tongue and throat

Questions about glossopharyngeal

What does glossopharyngeal mean?

glossopharyngeal means "pertaining to the tongue and throat".

How many syllables are in glossopharyngeal?

glossopharyngeal has 6 syllables and divides as glos-so-pha-ryn-ge-al 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 glossopharyngeal a common word?

glossopharyngeal 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.