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iritis

noun

iritis is spelled I-R-I-T-I-S: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, iritis means “An inflammation of the iris” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of iritis is iritides.

How many letters and syllables are in iritis?

Letters6: I-R-I-T-I-S
In writingabout once in every 62 million words; the 246,401st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is iritis?

Iritis appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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 pronounce iritis?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-iritis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of iritis

  • iritides plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does iritis mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An inflammation of the iris.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Iritis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense inflammation of the iris:

LanguageWords
GermanIritis
Spanishiritis

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.

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