mephitis

Other forms of mephitis

plural

mephitises·

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 mephitis

What does mephitis mean?

mephitis means "a poisonous or foul smelling gas emitted from the earth". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mephitis?

mephitis has 3 syllables and divides as me-phi-tis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for mephitis?

Close synonyms include malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek. 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 mephitis a common word?

mephitis 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.