ordure

Other forms of ordure

plural

ordures·

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 ordure

What does ordure mean?

ordure means "solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels".

How many syllables are in ordure?

ordure has 2 syllables and divides as or-dure 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 ordure?

Close synonyms include fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM. 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 ordure a common word?

ordure 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.