spirochete

Other forms of spirochete

plural

spirochetes·

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 spirochete

What does spirochete mean?

spirochete means "parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals".

How many syllables are in spirochete?

spirochete has 3 syllables: spi-ro-chete. The stress falls on "spi".

What is another word for spirochete?

Close synonyms include spirochaete. 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 spirochete a common word?

spirochete 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.