suppurative
adjective, noun
suppurative is spelled S-U-P-P-U-R-A-T-I-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is supparative: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Suppurative is an adjective meaning “Of a disease or medical condition, causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus”.
How many letters and syllables are in suppurative?
| Letters | 11: S-U-P-P-U-R-A-T-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 45 million words; the 206,808th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, supparative, about 20 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 suppurative?
Suppurative is spelled S-U-P-P-U-R-A-T-I-V-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for suppurative 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 suppurative?
Suppurative appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).
Forms of suppurative
- more suppurative comparative
- most suppurative superlative
- suppuratives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does suppurative mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of a disease or medical condition, causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.
noun
- 1
A medicine that causes suppuration.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Suppurative in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense causing the production of pus:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | suppuratif, suppurative |
| Portuguese | supurativo |
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 suppurative come from?
From suppurate + -ive, from Modern Latin suppūrātīvus, from suppūrō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).