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: me-phi-tis. The stress falls on "me".

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.