organ

Other forms of organ

plural

organs·

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 organ

What does organ mean?

organ means "a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in organ?

organ has 2 syllables: or-gan. The stress falls on "or". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹɡən/.

What is another word for organ?

Close synonyms include electric organ, electronic organ, Hammond organ, pipe organ, harmonium. 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 organ a common word?

organ is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.