sphacelotheca

Questions about sphacelotheca

What does sphacelotheca mean?

sphacelotheca means "genus of smut fungus".

How many syllables are in sphacelotheca?

sphacelotheca has 5 syllables and divides as spha-ce-lo-the-ca under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sphacelotheca?

Close synonyms include genus Sphacelotheca. 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 sphacelotheca a common word?

sphacelotheca 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.