parturiency

Other forms of parturiency

plural

parturiencies·

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 parturiency

What does parturiency mean?

parturiency means "concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child".

How many syllables are in parturiency?

parturiency has 4 syllables and divides as par-tu-rien-cy 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 parturiency?

Close synonyms include labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail. 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 parturiency a common word?

parturiency 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.