odontology

Other forms of odontology

plural

odontologies·

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 odontology

What does odontology mean?

odontology means "the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth".

How many syllables are in odontology?

odontology has 5 syllables and divides as o-don-to-lo-gy 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 odontology?

Close synonyms include dentistry, dental medicine. 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 odontology a common word?

odontology 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.