navel

Other forms of navel

plural

navels·

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 navel

What does navel mean?

navel means "a scar where the umbilical cord was attached". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in navel?

navel has 2 syllables: na-vel. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˈneɪvəl/.

What is another word for navel?

Close synonyms include umbilicus, bellybutton, belly button, omphalos, omphalus. 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 navel a common word?

navel is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 navel?

1 word rhymes with navel. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.