pseudosmallpox

Other forms of pseudosmallpox

plural

pseudosmallpoxes·

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 pseudosmallpox

What does pseudosmallpox mean?

pseudosmallpox means "a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus".

How many syllables are in pseudosmallpox?

pseudosmallpox has 5 syllables and divides as pse-u-do-small-pox 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 pseudosmallpox?

Close synonyms include alastrim, variola minor, pseudovariola, milk pox, white pox. 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 pseudosmallpox a common word?

pseudosmallpox 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.