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say it: TAHY-fuhs
typhus is a noun meaning "rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever". It carries one recorded sense.
rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for typhus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.