anthrax
/ˈæn.θɹæks/noun
anthrax is spelled A-N-T-H-R-A-X: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, anthrax means “An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of anthrax is anthraxes.
How many letters and syllables are in anthrax?
| Letters | 7: A-N-T-H-R-A-X |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,835th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is anthrax?
Anthrax appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce anthrax?
- /ˈæn.θɹæks/
Anthrax has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-anthrax.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of anthrax
- anthraxes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does anthrax mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis.
- 2
The human disease that can occur in humans through contact with infected herbivores, tissue from infected animals, or high concentrations of anthrax spores, but is not usually spread between humans, with symptoms including lesions on the skin or in the lungs, often fatal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Anthrax in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense disease:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | charbon |
| German | Milzbrand |
| Portuguese | carbúnculo, antraz |
| Spanish | carbunco |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does anthrax come from?
From Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “abscess, boil”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).