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Definition: Pustule |
PustuleNoun1. A small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pustule" was first used: 1392. (references) |
Etymology: Pustule \Pus"tule\, noun. [Latin expression pustula, and pusula: compare to the French expression pustule.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Science | A pimple or blister-like swelling, hollow within, often eroding. adj. pustulate. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Blemish | Freckle, mole, macula, patch, blotch, birthmark; blobber lip, blubber lip; blain, maculation; scar, wem; pustule; whelk; excrescence, pimple; (protuberance). |
Convexity | Pimple, zit; wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain; boil; (disease); airbubble, blob, papule, verruca. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pustule |
| English words defined with "pustule": Charbon ♦ hickey ♦ Persian fire, pimple, pock ♦ Quat ♦ Welk, Wool sorter's disease. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pustule": cow pox. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pustule": Phlyctenular. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pustule" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (pustule). |
| "Pustule" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pustule" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "pustule": Malignant pustule. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pustule | 34 |
acne pustule | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pustule"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | puprri (acne, blotch, botch, pimple, push, whelk), puçërr me qelb (gathering), puçërr (pimple, pock, spot, whelk). (various references) | |
Arabic | نافطة, حطاطة (papule), بثرة (acne, bleb, botch, pap, pimple, pock, vesicle, wart, whelk). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гнойна пъпка, брадавица (verruca, wart), пустула, пришка (blain, bleb, blister, gall, spot, whelk). (various references) | |
Czech | puchýřek (vesicle), vřídek. (various references) | |
Danish | pustel (pustula). (various references) | |
Dutch | pustula, pustel. (various references) | |
Finnish | näppylä (pimple), näppy (pimple), finni (pimple). (various references) | |
French | pustule (pustula). (various references) | |
German | Pustel (blaine, pimple, spot). (various references) | |
Greek | σπυρί (abscess, blain, grain, pimple, spot, whelp), πυώδησ φλύκταινα, φλύκταινα (pock), εξάνθημα (eruption, hives, pimple, rash). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מו'לית, אבעבוע" (blister, furuncle, pimple), בעבוע (bubble, vesicle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pattanás (acne, blister, papule, pimple, snap, spot, zit). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bisul (abscess, blaim, blotch, boil, carbuncle, gall, protuberance). (various references) | |
Italian | pustola (blain, pimple, pimples, pock, whelk). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 膿疱 (pustula). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | のうほう (farming methods, pustula). (various references) | |
Manx | spoht breck, pushag (pimple), gurran. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ustulepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pústula (blain, blotch, pimple, pock). (various references) | |
Russian | пустула. (various references) | |
Scottish | guirean (a pimple, pimple), brachag. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bubuljica (papula, pimple, ruby). (various references) | |
Spanish | pústula (blotch, fester). (various references) | |
Swedish | varblåsa, koppa (cup, pock). (various references) | |
Thai | ตุ่มหนอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | sivilce (acne, carbuncle, pimple, whelk), kabartı (blotch, bulging, exanthema, protuberance, puff, puffiness, raise, swelling, tumefaction, whelk), kabarcık (blister, bubble, papilla, papula, papule, pimple, pock, tubercle, vesicle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пустула, прищ (acne, pap, pimple, whelk), подушечка. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | papularum, papulas, pustula. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pustule": pustuled, pustules. (additional references) | |
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"Pustule" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pasquali, pasquil, pesfull, Phuture, Pistolet, pistolier, postale, postle, postule, pulsatile, puscule, Pushtu, pustual, pustular, pustuleo, pusule, Puttalam, Puzzuoli. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "pustule" (pronounced 'Pus"tule'): Blastule, Fistule, Frustule, Mutule, Noctule, Sportule. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pluteus. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-p-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: letups. | |
-2 letters: letup, lupus, lutes, pelts, pules, pulse, setup, slept, spelt, stupe, tules, upset. | |
-3 letters: lept, lest, lets, lues, lust, lute, pelt, pest, pets, plus, pule, puls, puts, sept, slue, spue, step, suet, sulu, supe, tels, tule, tups, ulus. | |
-4 letters: els, let, leu, pes, pet, pul, pus, put, sel, set, sue, sup, tel, tup. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-p-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: pustuled, pustules. | |
+2 letters: sculpture, sepulture. | |
+3 letters: eucalyptus, pullulates, pustulated, quintuples, sculptured, sculptures, sepultures, teacupfuls, teacupsful. | |
+4 letters: apicultures, impetuously, quadruplets, quintuplets, submultiple, superfluity, supersleuth, supersubtle. | |
+5 letters: eucalyptuses, multipurpose, outpopulates, pisciculture, pulchritudes, seropurulent, stupendously, submultiples, supercluster, supernatural, superovulate, superquality, supersleuths, undisputable, voluptuaries. | |
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