poultice

Other forms of poultice

plural

poultices·

past tense

poulticed·

present participle

poulticing·

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 poultice

What does poultice mean?

poultice means "a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in poultice?

poultice has 2 syllables: poul-tice. The stress falls on "poul". In IPA it is /ˈpoʊltəs/.

What is another word for poultice?

Close synonyms include cataplasm, plaster, plaster. 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 poultice a common word?

poultice 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.