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say it: roo-BEL-uh
rubella is a noun meaning "a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester". It carries one recorded sense.
a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rubella come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.