chlamydia

Other forms of chlamydia

plural

chlamydias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chlamydia

What does chlamydia mean?

chlamydia means "a sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chlamydia?

chlamydia has 4 syllables: chla-my-di-a. The stress falls on "my". In IPA it is /klæˈmaɪdiə/.

Is chlamydia a common word?

chlamydia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.