wart
/wɔɹt/noun
wart is spelled W-A-R-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,416th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “wart vs wort” about 50 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, wart means “A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wart is warts.
How many letters and syllables are in wart?
| Letters | 4: W-A-R-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 38,416th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is wart?
Wart appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,416th 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 wart?
- UK /wɔːt/
- US /wɔɹt/
Wart has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-wart.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with wart
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with wart?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wart from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of wart
- warts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does wart mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
A wart has appeared on my toe.
- 2
Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
- 3
informalAnything unsightly or undesirable; a blemish.
- 4
derogatoryslangAny of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Wart in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense type of growth occurring on the skin:
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 wart come from?
From Middle English warte, werte, from Old English wearte, from Proto-West Germanic *wartā, from Proto-Germanic *wartǭ. Cognate with Dutch wrat, German Warze, Hunsrik Waarz, Swedish vårta and Danish vorte.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).