pneumonia

Other forms of pneumonia

plural

pneumonias·

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 pneumonia

What does pneumonia mean?

pneumonia means "respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants".

How many syllables are in pneumonia?

pneumonia has 3 syllables: pneu-mo-nia. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /nuˈmoʊnjə/.

Is pneumonia a common word?

pneumonia is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pneumonia?

1 word rhymes with pneumonia. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.