Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

positivity rate

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English

Syllables: pos-i-tiv-i-ty rate
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The percentage of people who have tested positive out of all of those who have been tested (for a given pathogen).

Inflected Forms

positivity rates (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

sensitivity specificity

Questions

What does positivity rate mean?: The percentage of people who have tested positive out of all of those who have been tested (for a given pathogen).

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