echinococcosis
noun
echinococcosis is a noun meaning “A potentially fatal parasitic disease of animals and humans, caused by the Echinococcus tapeworm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-C-H-I-N-O-C-O-C-C-O-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of echinococcosis is echinococcoses.
What does echinococcosis mean?
noun
- 1
A potentially fatal parasitic disease of animals and humans, caused by the Echinococcus tapeworm.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of echinococcosis
- echinococcoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is echinococcosis?
Echinococcosis appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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).
Echinococcosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a potentially fatal parasitic disease of animals and humans, caused by the Echin:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | échinococcose |
| Portuguese | equinococose, hidatidose |
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.