phalacrosis

Questions about phalacrosis

What does phalacrosis mean?

phalacrosis means "the condition of having no hair on the top of the head".

How many syllables are in phalacrosis?

phalacrosis has 4 syllables and divides as pha-la-cro-sis 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 phalacrosis?

Close synonyms include baldness. 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 phalacrosis a common word?

phalacrosis 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.