thalassoma

Questions about thalassoma

What does thalassoma mean?

thalassoma means "a genus of Labridae".

How many syllables are in thalassoma?

thalassoma has 4 syllables and divides as tha-las-so-ma 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 thalassoma?

Close synonyms include genus Thalassoma. 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 thalassoma a common word?

thalassoma 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.