oesophagus

Other forms of oesophagus

plural

oesophaguses·

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 oesophagus

What does oesophagus mean?

oesophagus means "the passage between the pharynx and the stomach".

How many syllables are in oesophagus?

oesophagus has 5 syllables: o-e-so-pha-gus. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for oesophagus?

Close synonyms include esophagus, gorge, gullet. 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 oesophagus a common word?

oesophagus 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.