foulbrood
noun
foulbrood is a noun meaning “A bacterial disease of bees” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-L-B-R-O-O-D, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foulbrood is foulbroods.
What does foulbrood mean?
noun
- 1
A bacterial disease of bees.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of foulbrood
- foulbroods plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foulbrood?
Foulbrood appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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).
Where does foulbrood come from?
From foul + brood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).