thighbone

Other forms of thighbone

plural

thighbones·

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 thighbone

What does thighbone mean?

thighbone means "the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee".

How many syllables are in thighbone?

thighbone has 2 syllables: thigh-bone. The stress falls on "thigh".

What is another word for thighbone?

Close synonyms include femur, femoris. 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 thighbone a common word?

thighbone 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.