hamate

Questions about hamate

What does hamate mean?

hamate means "the wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers".

How many syllables are in hamate?

hamate has 2 syllables and divides as ha-mate 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.

What is another word for hamate?

Close synonyms include hamate bone, unciform bone, os hamatum. 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 hamate a common word?

hamate 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.