omphalos

Other forms of omphalos

plural

omphaloses·

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 omphalos

What does omphalos mean?

omphalos means "a scar where the umbilical cord was attached".

How many syllables are in omphalos?

omphalos has 3 syllables and divides as om-pha-los 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 omphalos?

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

omphalos 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.