Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

leptospirosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.00 in modern English

Syllables: lep-tospiro-sis
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Leptospira + -osis.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: osis

Usage

Inflected Forms

leptospiroses (plural)

Derived Forms

neuroleptospirosis

Synonyms

Weil’s disease canicola fever canefield fever nanukayami fever 7-day fever rat catcher's yellows Fort Bragg fever black jaundice pretibial fever rat fever

Questions

What does leptospirosis mean?: An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
Where does leptospirosis come from?: From Leptospira + -osis.

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