jesuit

Other forms of jesuit

plural

jesuits·

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 jesuit

What does jesuit mean?

jesuit means "a member of the Jesuit order". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jesuit?

jesuit has 3 syllables: jes-u-it. The stress falls on "jes". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɛʒuɪt/.

What is another word for jesuit?

Close synonyms include Jesuitical, Jesuitic. 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 jesuit a common word?

jesuit 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.