putridness

Questions about putridness

What does putridness mean?

putridness means "in a state of progressive putrefaction".

How many syllables are in putridness?

putridness has 3 syllables and divides as pu-trid-ness 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 putridness?

Close synonyms include putrescence, rottenness, corruption. 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 putridness a common word?

putridness 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.