claudication

Other forms of claudication

plural

claudications·

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 claudication

What does claudication mean?

claudication means "disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet".

How many syllables are in claudication?

claudication has 5 syllables and divides as cla-u-di-ca-tion under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for claudication?

Close synonyms include lameness, limping, gimp, gimpiness, gameness. 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 claudication a common word?

claudication 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.