lupus

Other forms of lupus

plural

lupuses·

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 lupus

What does lupus mean?

lupus means "any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lupus?

lupus has 2 syllables: lu-pus. The stress falls on "lu". In IPA it is /ˈlupəs/.

Is lupus a common word?

lupus is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.