Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

strangling angel of children

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English

Syllables: stran-gling an-gel of chil-dren
IPA

37

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

4

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The disease diphtheria.

Etymology

From being a childhood disease that causes suffocation of children when it creates biofilms in the lungs that prevent air from being exchanged with the blood.

Inflected Forms

the strangling angel of children (canonical)

Questions

What does strangling angel of children mean?: The disease diphtheria.
Where does strangling angel of children come from?: From being a childhood disease that causes suffocation of children when it creates biofilms in the lungs that prevent air from being exchanged with the blood.

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