otis

Other forms of otis

plural

otises·

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 otis

What does otis mean?

otis means "United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in otis?

otis has 2 syllables: o-tis. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊtɪs/.

What is another word for otis?

Close synonyms include Elisha Graves Otis, genus Otis. 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 otis a common word?

otis is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.