voice box

Questions about voice box

What does voice box mean?

voice box means "a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech".

What is another word for voice box?

Close synonyms include larynx. 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 voice box a common word?

voice box 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.