halitosis

1. 1.

   offensive breath

   Broaderhalitus

Other forms of halitosis

plural

halitosises·

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 halitosis

What does halitosis mean?

halitosis means "offensive breath".

How many syllables are in halitosis?

halitosis has 4 syllables: ha-li-to-sis. The stress falls on "li".

Is halitosis a common word?

halitosis 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.