brucellosis
"brucellosis" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brucellosis” is uncommon English (frequency #88,154 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,154
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Infection by a bacterium of the genus Brucella, which is carried by ruminants and other mammals, with symptoms including recurring fevers, sweating, weakness, anorexia, headaches, depression, and g...
Corpus desk
Index EN-brucellosis · brucellosis · English
brucellosis · rank #88,154 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,154
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH brolly
Nearest frequency peer: brolly (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “brucellosis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- brillo
brillo
11,852 corpus weight
- briony
briony
11,850 corpus weight
- brolly
brolly
11,848 corpus weight
- brucellosis
brucellosis
11,847 corpus weight
- BTK
BTK
11,845 corpus weight
- Bula
Bula
11,841 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “brucellosis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brucellosis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brucellosis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brucellosis is uncommon English at frequency #88,154 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Infection by a bacterium of the genus Brucella, which is carried by ruminants and other mammals, with symptoms including recurring fevers, sweating, weakness, anorexia, headaches, depression, and g...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for brucellosis, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From translingual Brucella + -osis. The correct English form is brucellosis, spelled B-R-U-C-E-L-L-O-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Infection by a bacterium of the genus Brucella, which is carried by ruminants and other mammals, with symptoms including recurring fevers, sweating, weakness, anorexia, headaches, depression, and generalized aches and pains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brucellosis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There is debate asto whether rangiferine brucellosis spread to North America across the Bering Sea land bridge duringthelast iceage,orifit was introduced in imported Russian reindeer around 1900.
The clash between Montana and the National Park Service, among other officials and entities that maintain the sprawling park, stems from state authorities' belief that the park's plan to manage its bison herd doesn't do enough to reduce the risk of brucellosis transmission.
Etymology
From translingual Brucella + -osis.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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