verruca

Other forms of verruca

plural

verrucae

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 verruca

What does verruca mean?

verruca means "(pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus".

How many syllables are in verruca?

verruca has 3 syllables and divides as ver-ru-ca 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.

What is another word for verruca?

Close synonyms include wart. 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 verruca a common word?

verruca 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.