nautilus

Other forms of nautilus

plural

nautili

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 nautilus

What does nautilus mean?

nautilus means "a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nautilus?

nautilus has 3 syllables: nau-ti-lus. The stress falls on "nau". In IPA it is /ˈnɔtələs/.

What is another word for nautilus?

Close synonyms include nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarine, paper nautilus, Argonaut, Argonauta argo. 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 nautilus a common word?

nautilus 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.