roof of the mouth

Questions about roof of the mouth

What does roof of the mouth mean?

roof of the mouth means "the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities".

What is another word for roof of the mouth?

Close synonyms include palate. 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 roof of the mouth a common word?

roof of the mouth 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.