ligament

Other forms of ligament

plural

ligaments·

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 ligament

What does ligament mean?

ligament means "a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ligament?

ligament has 3 syllables: lig-a-ment. The stress falls on "lig". In IPA it is /ˈlɪɡəmənt/.

Is ligament a common word?

ligament 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.