tubercle

Other forms of tubercle

plural

tubercles·

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 tubercle

What does tubercle mean?

tubercle means "a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tubercle?

tubercle has 3 syllables: tu-ber-cle. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for tubercle?

Close synonyms include nodule, tuberosity, eminence. 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 tubercle a common word?

tubercle 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.