hereditary

Questions about hereditary

What does hereditary mean?

hereditary means "occurring among members of a family usually by heredity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hereditary?

hereditary has 5 syllables: he-red-i-tar-y. The stress falls on "red". In IPA it is /hɚˈɛdəˌtɛɹi/.

What is another word for hereditary?

Close synonyms include familial, genetic, inherited, transmitted, transmissible. 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 hereditary a common word?

hereditary 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.

What rhymes with hereditary?

30 words rhyme with hereditary. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.