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say it: pluh-SEE-boh
placebo is a noun meaning "an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for placebo come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.