sublingual

1. 1.

   beneath the tongue

Questions about sublingual

What does sublingual mean?

sublingual means "beneath the tongue".

How many syllables are in sublingual?

sublingual has 4 syllables: su-blin-gu-al. The stress falls on "blin".

Is sublingual a common word?

sublingual 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.