prioress

Questions about prioress

What does prioress mean?

prioress means "the superior of a group of nuns".

How many syllables are in prioress?

prioress has 3 syllables and divides as pri-o-ress 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 prioress?

Close synonyms include abbess, mother superior. 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 prioress a common word?

prioress 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.