lazaretto

Other forms of lazaretto

plural

lazarettoes·

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 lazaretto

What does lazaretto mean?

lazaretto means "hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lazaretto?

lazaretto has 4 syllables: la-za-ret-to. The stress falls on "za".

What is another word for lazaretto?

Close synonyms include lazaret, lazarette, lazar house, pesthouse, glory hole. 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 lazaretto a common word?

lazaretto 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.