onus

Other forms of onus

plural

onuses·

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 onus

What does onus mean?

onus means "an onerous or difficult concern".

How many syllables are in onus?

onus has 2 syllables: o-nus. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊnəs/.

What is another word for onus?

Close synonyms include burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance. 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 onus a common word?

onus 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.