Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nephropyelitis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
nephropy-eli-tis
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An infection of the kidney and the renal pelvis

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From nephro- + pyelitis. By surface analysis, nephr- + -o- + pyel- + -itis.

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Inflected Forms

nephropyelitides (plural)

Questions

What does nephropyelitis mean?
An infection of the kidney and the renal pelvis
Where does nephropyelitis come from?
From nephro- + pyelitis. By surface analysis, nephr- + -o- + pyel- + -itis.

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