privates

Other forms of privates

plural

privateses·

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 privates

What does privates mean?

privates means "external sex organ".

How many syllables are in privates?

privates has 2 syllables: priva-tes. The stress falls on "priva". In IPA it is /ˈpɹaɪvəts/.

What is another word for privates?

Close synonyms include genitalia, genital organ, genitals, private parts, crotch. 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 privates a common word?

privates is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.