ounce

Other forms of ounce

plural

ounces·

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 ounce

What does ounce mean?

ounce means "a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ounce?

ounce has 1 syllable: ounce. In IPA it is /ˈaʊns/.

What is another word for ounce?

Close synonyms include troy ounce, apothecaries' ounce, oz., snow leopard, Panthera uncia. 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 ounce a common word?

ounce 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.