frambesia

What does frambesia mean?

frambesia means "an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions".

How many syllables are in frambesia?

frambesia has 4 syllables and divides as fram-be-si-a 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 frambesia?

Close synonyms include yaws, framboesia. 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 frambesia a common word?

frambesia 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for frambesia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.