wart

1. 1.

   any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)

   Broaderbulge

   animal

2. 2.

   an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness)

   Broaderimperfection
3. 3.

   (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus

   Synonymsverruca

   Broaderblemishkeratosis

   Narrowercommon wartgenital wartjuvenile wartplantar wart

   pathology

Other forms of wart

plural

warts·

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 wart

What does wart mean?

wart means "any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wart?

wart has 1 syllable: wart. In IPA it is /ˈwɔɹt/.

What is another word for wart?

Close synonyms include verruca. 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 wart a common word?

wart is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.