regulus

Other forms of regulus

plural

reguli

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 regulus

What does regulus mean?

regulus means "the brightest star in Leo". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in regulus?

regulus has 3 syllables: re-gu-lus. The stress falls on "re".

What is another word for regulus?

Close synonyms include genus Regulus. 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 regulus a common word?

regulus 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.