respiratory

1. 1.

   pertaining to respiration

   “respiratory assistance”

Questions about respiratory

What does respiratory mean?

respiratory means "pertaining to respiration".

How many syllables are in respiratory?

respiratory has 5 syllables: res-pi-ra-to-ry. The stress falls on "res". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛspɚəˌtɔɹi/.

Is respiratory a common word?

respiratory 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 respiratory?

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