nipple

Other forms of nipple

plural

nipples·

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 nipple

What does nipple mean?

nipple means "the small projection of a mammary gland". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nipple?

nipple has 2 syllables: nip-ple. The stress falls on "nip". In IPA it is /ˈnɪpəl/.

What is another word for nipple?

Close synonyms include mammilla, mamilla, pap, teat, tit. 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 nipple a common word?

nipple 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.