sodomy

Other forms of sodomy

plural

sodomies·

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 sodomy

What does sodomy mean?

sodomy means "sexual activity between a person and an animal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sodomy?

sodomy has 3 syllables: so-do-my. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˈsɑdəmi/.

What is another word for sodomy?

Close synonyms include bestiality, zooerastia, zooerasty, buggery, anal sex. 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 sodomy a common word?

sodomy 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.