carditis
noun
carditis is a noun meaning “inflammation of the heart (any or all parts of it)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-R-D-I-T-I-S, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of carditis is carditides.
What does carditis mean?
noun
- 1
inflammation of the heart (any or all parts of it).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of carditis
- carditides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is carditis?
Carditis 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).
Carditis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense inflammation of the muscles of the heart:
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 carditis come from?
From Latin cardītis. By surface analysis, cardi- + -itis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).