Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tumour

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

Syllables: tu-mour
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Commonwealth standard spelling of tumor.

Example Sentences

"At this time, and at another occasion when she feared she had a brain tumour, she “consulted Dr Google”."

Etymology

From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: tumour, tumor, *tewh₂-

Inflected Forms

tumours (plural)

Derived Forms

antitumour hypertumour intertumour intratumour microtumour nontumourigenic paratumour peritumour pretumoural protumour pseudotumour tumoured

Phrases

brain tumour Wilms tumour Wilms' tumour

Synonyms

tumor neoplasm

Questions

What does tumour mean?: Commonwealth standard spelling of tumor.
Where does tumour come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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