ulitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of the gums

   Broaderinflammation

Other forms of ulitis

plural

ulitises·

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 ulitis

What does ulitis mean?

ulitis means "inflammation of the gums".

How many syllables are in ulitis?

ulitis has 3 syllables: u-li-tis. The stress falls on "u".

Is ulitis a common word?

ulitis 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.