prepuce

Other forms of prepuce

plural

prepuces·

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 prepuce

What does prepuce mean?

prepuce means "a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prepuce?

prepuce has 2 syllables: prep-uce. The stress falls on "prep". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɛˌpjus/.

What is another word for prepuce?

Close synonyms include foreskin, foreskin. 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 prepuce a common word?

prepuce 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.