pediculosis

Questions about pediculosis

What does pediculosis mean?

pediculosis means "infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching".

How many syllables are in pediculosis?

pediculosis has 5 syllables and divides as pe-di-cu-lo-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 pediculosis?

Close synonyms include lousiness. 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 pediculosis a common word?

pediculosis 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.