pseudohermaphrodite

Other forms of pseudohermaphrodite

plural

pseudohermaphrodites·

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 pseudohermaphrodite

What does pseudohermaphrodite mean?

pseudohermaphrodite means "someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pseudohermaphrodite?

pseudohermaphrodite has 7 syllables: pse-u-do-her-maph-ro-dite. The stress falls on "maph".

What is another word for pseudohermaphrodite?

Close synonyms include pseudohermaphroditic. 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 pseudohermaphrodite a common word?

pseudohermaphrodite 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.