puerperal
/pjuˈɝpəɹəl/adjective
puerperal is spelled P-U-E-R-P-E-R-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is purpural: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Puerperal is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or associated with the puerperium (the first month of postpartum), or, sometimes also”.
How many letters and syllables are in puerperal?
| Letters | 9: P-U-E-R-P-E-R-A-L |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 16 million words; the 119,826th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, purpural, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell puerperal?
Puerperal is spelled P-U-E-R-P-E-R-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for puerperal in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is puerperal?
Puerperal appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce puerperal?
- US /pjuˈɝpəɹəl/
- UK /pjuˈɜːpəɹəl/
- /ˈpwɛɹpəɹəl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does puerperal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or associated with the puerperium (the first month of postpartum), or, sometimes also
puerperal mastitis
- 2
Of, pertaining to, or associated with the peripartum period including childbirth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Puerperal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Of or pertaining to or associated with childbirth:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | puerperal |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does puerperal come from?
From New Latin puerperālis, from Latin puerpera (“woman in childbirth”), from puer (“child”) + pariō (“to bear”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).