tongue tie

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   a congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue

   Synonymsankyloglossia

   Broaderbirth defect

Questions about tongue tie

What does tongue tie mean?

tongue tie means "a congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue".

What is another word for tongue tie?

Close synonyms include ankyloglossia. 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 tongue tie a common word?

tongue tie 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.