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 and divides as su-blin-gu-al 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.

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.