knee

Other forms of knee

plural

knees·

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 knee

What does knee mean?

knee means "hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in knee?

knee has 1 syllable: knee. In IPA it is /ˈni/.

What is another word for knee?

Close synonyms include knee joint, human knee, articulatio genus, genu, stifle. 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 knee a common word?

knee is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 knee?

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