throat

Other forms of throat

plural

throats·

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 throat

What does throat mean?

throat means "the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in throat?

throat has 1 syllable: throat. In IPA it is /ˈθɹoʊt/.

What is another word for throat?

Close synonyms include pharynx. 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 throat a common word?

throat is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 throat?

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