breakbone fever
"breakbone-fever" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“breakbone fever” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - dengue fever.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breakbone fever |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “breakbone fever” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for breakbone fever is 15 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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Using “breakbone fever”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-R-E-A-K-B-O-N-E- -F-E-V-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.