maxillary

Other forms of maxillary

plural

maxillaries·

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 maxillary

What does maxillary mean?

maxillary means "the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in maxillary?

maxillary has 4 syllables: max-il-la-ry. The stress falls on "il". In IPA it is /mækˈsɪləˌɹi/.

What is another word for maxillary?

Close synonyms include upper jaw, upper jawbone, maxilla. 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 maxillary a common word?

maxillary 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.

What rhymes with maxillary?

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