prognosis

Other forms of prognosis

plural

prognoses

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 prognosis

What does prognosis mean?

prognosis means "a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prognosis?

prognosis has 3 syllables: prog-no-sis. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /pɹɑɡˈnoʊsəs/.

What is another word for prognosis?

Close synonyms include forecast, prospect, medical prognosis. 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 prognosis a common word?

prognosis 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.

What rhymes with prognosis?

2 words rhyme with prognosis. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.