rubor

Other forms of rubor

plural

rubors·

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 rubor

What does rubor mean?

rubor means "a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat".

How many syllables are in rubor?

rubor has 2 syllables: ru-bor. The stress falls on "ru".

What is another word for rubor?

Close synonyms include inflammation, redness. 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 rubor a common word?

rubor is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.