uterus

Other forms of uterus

plural

uteri

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 uterus

What does uterus mean?

uterus means "a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus".

How many syllables are in uterus?

uterus has 3 syllables: u-te-rus. The stress falls on "u". In IPA it is /ˈjutɚəs/.

What is another word for uterus?

Close synonyms include womb. 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 uterus a common word?

uterus is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.