ictus

Other forms of ictus

plural

ictuses·

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 ictus

What does ictus mean?

ictus means "a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease".

How many syllables are in ictus?

ictus has 2 syllables: ic-tus. The stress falls on "ic".

What is another word for ictus?

Close synonyms include seizure, raptus. 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 ictus a common word?

ictus 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.