patency

Other forms of patency

plural

patencies·

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 patency

What does patency mean?

patency means "the openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in patency?

patency has 3 syllables: pa-ten-cy. The stress falls on "pa".

What is another word for patency?

Close synonyms include obviousness, noticeability, noticeableness. 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 patency a common word?

patency 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.