listeria monocytogenes
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
8
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
n
the type species of the genus Listeria; can cause meningitis, encephalitis, septicemia, endocarditis, abortion, abscesses, listeriosis