stylus

Other forms of stylus

plural

styli

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 stylus

What does stylus mean?

stylus means "a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stylus?

stylus has 2 syllables: sty-lus. The stress falls on "sty". In IPA it is /ˈstaɪləs/.

What is another word for stylus?

Close synonyms include style. 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 stylus a common word?

stylus 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.