pullulate

Other forms of pullulate

past tense

pullulated·

present participle

pullulating·

third person

pullulates·

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 pullulate

What does pullulate mean?

pullulate means "be teeming, be abuzz". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pullulate?

pullulate has 3 syllables: pul-lu-late. The stress falls on "pul".

What is another word for pullulate?

Close synonyms include teem, swarm, pour, swarm, stream. 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 pullulate a common word?

pullulate 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.