sarcophagus

1. 1.

   a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)

   Broadercoffin

Other forms of sarcophagus

plural

sarcophagi

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 sarcophagus

What does sarcophagus mean?

sarcophagus means "a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)".

How many syllables are in sarcophagus?

sarcophagus has 4 syllables: sar-co-pha-gus. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /sɑɹˈkɑfəɡəs/.

Is sarcophagus a common word?

sarcophagus 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.