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say it: UHN-dur-pants
underpants is a noun meaning "an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin". It is pronounced /ˈʌndɚˌpænts/ — UHN-dur-pants. It carries one recorded sense.
an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin
plural
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for underpants come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.