vulgarism

Other forms of vulgarism

plural

vulgarisms·

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 vulgarism

What does vulgarism mean?

vulgarism means "an offensive or indecent word or phrase". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vulgarism?

vulgarism has 3 syllables: vul-ga-rism. The stress falls on "vul".

What is another word for vulgarism?

Close synonyms include obscenity, smut, filth, dirty word, coarseness. 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 vulgarism a common word?

vulgarism 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.