tendinitis

Questions about tendinitis

What does tendinitis mean?

tendinitis means "inflammation of a tendon".

How many syllables are in tendinitis?

tendinitis has 4 syllables and divides as ten-di-ni-tis 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.

What is another word for tendinitis?

Close synonyms include tendonitis, tenonitis. 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 tendinitis a common word?

tendinitis 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.