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whitehead

noun

whitehead is a noun meaning “A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-H-I-T-E-H-E-A-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears 1.4 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of whitehead is whiteheads.

What does whitehead mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium.

    Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom.

  2. 2

    A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).

  3. 3

    The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.

  4. 4

    The surf scoter duck.

  5. 5

    A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.

noun

as Whitehead
  1. 1

    A form of self-propelling torpedo.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce whitehead?

    Whitehead has 2 syllables (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).

    Forms of whitehead

    • whiteheads plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is whitehead?

    Whitehead appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th 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).

    Whitehead in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense pimple:

    LanguageWords
    GermanMitesser, Komedo

    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 whitehead come from?

    From white + head.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).