pulchritude

1. 1.

   physical beauty (especially of a woman)

   Broaderbeauty

   Narrowercurvaceousness

Other forms of pulchritude

plural

pulchritudes·

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 pulchritude

What does pulchritude mean?

pulchritude means "physical beauty (especially of a woman)".

How many syllables are in pulchritude?

pulchritude has 3 syllables: pulch-ri-tude. The stress falls on "pulch".

Is pulchritude a common word?

pulchritude 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.