sphacelus

Other forms of sphacelus

plural

sphaceluses·

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 sphacelus

What does sphacelus mean?

sphacelus means "necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sphacelus?

sphacelus has 3 syllables: spha-ce-lus. The stress falls on "spha".

What is another word for sphacelus?

Close synonyms include gangrene, slough, necrosis, mortification, gangrene. 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 sphacelus a common word?

sphacelus 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.