vesicant
adjective, noun
vesicant is an adjective meaning “Causing blistering to the skin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-S-I-C-A-N-T, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vesicant mean?
adjective
- 1
Causing blistering to the skin.
noun
- 1
Any material that causes blisters upon contact with the skin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vesicant
- vesicants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vesicant?
Vesicant appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).
Where does vesicant come from?
Borrowed from Late Latin vēsīcāns, present participle of vēsīcō. By surface analysis, vesic- + -ant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).