Buboes
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Plural of bubo, referring to lymph nodes that have become inflamed and swollen due to plague, gonorrhoea, or tuberculosis.
“Doctors in the medieval period recognised buboes as a grim sign of plague infection.”
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Features a double B and ends in 'oes', a vowel-heavy ending shared with several other plurals
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The two Bs are costly tiles but the word is valid and can be a surprise play in specialist vocabularies
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