disease

Other forms of disease

plural

diseases·

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 disease

What does disease mean?

disease means "an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning".

How many syllables are in disease?

disease has 2 syllables: di-sease. The stress falls on "sease". In IPA it is /dɪˈziz/.

Is disease a common word?

disease is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.