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borreliosis

noun

borreliosis is spelled B-O-R-R-E-L-I-O-S-I-S: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, borreliosis means “infection with Borrelia bacteria; Lyme disease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of borreliosis is borrelioses.

How many letters and syllables are in borreliosis?

Letters11: B-O-R-R-E-L-I-O-S-I-S
In writingabout once in every 89 million words; the 301,415th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is borreliosis?

Borreliosis appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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).

Forms of borreliosis

  • borrelioses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does borreliosis mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    infection with Borrelia bacteria; Lyme disease

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Borreliosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchborréliose
GermanBorreliose

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 borreliosis come from?

From taxonomic name Borrelia + -osis.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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