gumboil

1. 1.

   a boil or abscess on the gums

   Broaderboil

Other forms of gumboil

plural

gumboils·

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 gumboil

What does gumboil mean?

gumboil means "a boil or abscess on the gums".

How many syllables are in gumboil?

gumboil has 2 syllables: gum-boil. The stress falls on "gum".

Is gumboil a common word?

gumboil 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.