underbelly

Other forms of underbelly

plural

underbellies·

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 underbelly

What does underbelly mean?

underbelly means "lower side". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in underbelly?

underbelly has 4 syllables: un-der-bel-ly. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚˌbɛli/.

What is another word for underbelly?

Close synonyms include underbody. 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 underbelly a common word?

underbelly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 underbelly?

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