umbilicus

Other forms of umbilicus

plural

umbilici

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 umbilicus

What does umbilicus mean?

umbilicus means "a scar where the umbilical cord was attached".

How many syllables are in umbilicus?

umbilicus has 4 syllables and divides as um-bi-li-cus under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for umbilicus?

Close synonyms include navel, bellybutton, belly button, omphalos, omphalus. 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 umbilicus a common word?

umbilicus 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.