pyorrhea

Other forms of pyorrhea

plural

pyorrheas·

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 pyorrhea

What does pyorrhea mean?

pyorrhea means "discharge of pus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pyorrhea?

pyorrhea has 3 syllables: py-orr-hea. The stress falls on "py".

What is another word for pyorrhea?

Close synonyms include pyorrhoea, pyorrhoea, pyorrhea alveolaris, Riggs' disease. 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 pyorrhea a common word?

pyorrhea 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.