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: um-bi-li-cus. The stress falls on "bi".

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.