thorax

Other forms of thorax

plural

thoraces

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 thorax

What does thorax mean?

thorax means "the middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thorax?

thorax has 2 syllables: tho-rax. The stress falls on "tho". In IPA it is /ˈθɔɹæks/.

What is another word for thorax?

Close synonyms include chest, pectus. 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 thorax a common word?

thorax is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with thorax?

1 word rhymes with thorax. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.