leptospirosis

Questions about leptospirosis

What does leptospirosis mean?

leptospirosis means "an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever".

How many syllables are in leptospirosis?

leptospirosis has 5 syllables and divides as lep-to-spi-ro-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for leptospirosis?

Close synonyms include swamp fever. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leptospirosis a common word?

leptospirosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.