vesicant

Other forms of vesicant

plural

vesicants·

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 vesicant

What does vesicant mean?

vesicant means "a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vesicant?

vesicant has 3 syllables: ve-si-cant. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for vesicant?

Close synonyms include vesicatory, vesicatory. 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 vesicant a common word?

vesicant 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.