stricture

Other forms of stricture

plural

strictures·

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 stricture

What does stricture mean?

stricture means "abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stricture?

stricture has 2 syllables: stric-ture. The stress falls on "stric". In IPA it is /ˈstɹɪktʃɚ/.

What is another word for stricture?

Close synonyms include stenosis. 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 stricture a common word?

stricture 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.