ulcerate

Questions about ulcerate

What does ulcerate mean?

ulcerate means "undergo ulceration". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ulcerate?

ulcerate has 3 syllables and divides as ul-ce-rate 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.

Is ulcerate a common word?

ulcerate 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.