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typhoid fever

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.92 in modern English

Syllables
ty-phoid fever
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An illness caused by the bacterium serovar Salmonella Typhi. Not to be confused with typhus.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

typhoid fevers (plural)

Phrases

paratyphoid fever

Frequently Paired Words

paratyphoid fever

Synonyms

abdominal typhus drain fever enteric fever typhoid

Questions

What does typhoid fever mean?
An illness caused by the bacterium serovar Salmonella Typhi. Not to be confused with typhus.

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