scissure

Other forms of scissure

plural

scissures·

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 scissure

What does scissure mean?

scissure means "a long narrow opening".

How many syllables are in scissure?

scissure has 2 syllables: scis-sure. The stress falls on "scis".

What is another word for scissure?

Close synonyms include crack, cleft, crevice, fissure. 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 scissure a common word?

scissure is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.