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say it: lah-rin-JAHY-tuhs
laryngitis is a noun meaning "inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx; characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice and coughing". It is pronounced /ˌlɑɹɪnˈdʒaɪtəs/ — lah-rin-JAHY-tuhs. It carries one recorded sense.
inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx; characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice and coughing
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for laryngitis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.