virulency

Other forms of virulency

plural

virulencies·

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 virulency

What does virulency mean?

virulency means "extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in virulency?

virulency has 4 syllables: vi-ru-len-cy. The stress falls on "ru".

What is another word for virulency?

Close synonyms include virulence, virulence. 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 virulency a common word?

virulency 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.