enterococcus
/ˌɛntəɹoʊˈkɑkəs/noun
enterococcus is a noun meaning “Any of a group of streptococci bacteria, of the genus Enterococcus, that inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract and have great resistance to…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-T-E-R-O-C-O-C-C-U-S and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of enterococcus is enterococci.
What does enterococcus mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a group of streptococci bacteria, of the genus Enterococcus, that inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract and have great resistance to antibiotics
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce enterococcus?
- UK /ˌɛntəɹə(ʊ)ˈkɒkəs/
- US /ˌɛntəɹoʊˈkɑkəs/
Enterococcus has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
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Forms of enterococcus
- enterococci plural
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How common is enterococcus?
Enterococcus appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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).
How do you abbreviate enterococcus?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of enterococcus: entero.
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Where does enterococcus come from?
From entero- + -coccus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).