Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

english disease

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English

Syllables: en-glish dis-ease
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

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Football (soccer) hooliganism.

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Depression (especially suicidal).

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Sweating sickness.

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Etymology

A calque of phrases from various languages, including the French maladie anglaise, Polish angielska choroba, German englische Krankheit, and the Russian англи́йская боле́знь (anglíjskaja boléznʹ).

Inflected Forms

the English disease (canonical)

Questions

What does english disease mean?: Football (soccer) hooliganism.
Where does english disease come from?: A calque of phrases from various languages, including the French maladie anglaise, Polish angielska choroba, German englische Krankheit, and the Russian англи́йская боле́знь (anglíjskaja boléznʹ).

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