indus

Other forms of indus

plural

induses·

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 indus

What does indus mean?

indus means "a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Tucana". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indus?

indus has 2 syllables: in-dus. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪndəs/.

What is another word for indus?

Close synonyms include Indus River. 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 indus a common word?

indus 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.