ilium

Other forms of ilium

plural

ilia

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 ilium

What does ilium mean?

ilium means "an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ilium?

ilium has 3 syllables: i-li-um. The stress falls on "i".

What is another word for ilium?

Close synonyms include Troy, Ilion. 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 ilium a common word?

ilium 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.