torticollis

1. 1.

   an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted

   Synonymswryneck

   Broaderabnormality

Other forms of torticollis

plural

torticollises·

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 torticollis

What does torticollis mean?

torticollis means "an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted".

How many syllables are in torticollis?

torticollis has 4 syllables: tor-ti-col-lis. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for torticollis?

Close synonyms include wryneck. 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 torticollis a common word?

torticollis 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.