breakbone fever
"breakbone-fever" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“breakbone fever” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dengue fever.
Corpus desk
Index EN-breakbone-fever · breakbone fever · English
breakbone fever · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breakbone fever |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “breakbone fever” in English
Rare enough to double-check
breakbone fever is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "dengue fever.".
breakbone fever doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Coinage attributed to Benjamin Rush because of the symptoms of myalgia and arthralgia. The correct English form is breakbone fever, spelled B-R-E-A-K-B-O-N-E- -F-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1dengue fever.
Etymology
Coinage attributed to Benjamin Rush because of the symptoms of myalgia and arthralgia.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.