leukoencephalitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of the white matter of the brain

   Broaderencephalitis

Other forms of leukoencephalitis

plural

leukoencephalitises·

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 leukoencephalitis

What does leukoencephalitis mean?

leukoencephalitis means "inflammation of the white matter of the brain".

How many syllables are in leukoencephalitis?

leukoencephalitis has 8 syllables and divides as le-u-ko-en-ce-pha-li-tis 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.