phrenitis

Other forms of phrenitis

plural

phrenitises·

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 phrenitis

What does phrenitis mean?

phrenitis means "inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use)".

How many syllables are in phrenitis?

phrenitis has 3 syllables: phre-ni-tis. The stress falls on "phre".

What is another word for phrenitis?

Close synonyms include encephalitis, cephalitis. 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 phrenitis a common word?

phrenitis 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.