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parasitosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

Syllables
par-a-sito-sis
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Infestation with parasites.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From parasite + -osis.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

parasitoses (plural)

Derived Forms

cleptoparasitosis ectoparasitosis endoparasitosis enteroparasitosis neuroparasitosis

Phrases

delusional parasitosis

Questions

What does parasitosis mean?
Infestation with parasites.
Where does parasitosis come from?
From parasite + -osis.

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