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legionellosis

/ˌliːdʒənɛlˈəʊsɪs/noun

legionellosis is spelled L-E-G-I-O-N-E-L-L-O-S-I-S: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, legionellosis means “Any disease caused by Legionella bacteria, such as Legionnaires' disease or Pontiac fever” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of legionellosis is legionelloses.

How many letters and syllables are in legionellosis?

Letters13: L-E-G-I-O-N-E-L-L-O-S-I-S
In writingabout once in every 78 million words; the 279,513th 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 legionellosis?

Legionellosis appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th 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 legionellosis?

  • /ˌliːdʒənɛlˈəʊsɪs/

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

Forms of legionellosis

  • legionelloses plural

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

What does legionellosis mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any disease caused by Legionella bacteria, such as Legionnaires' disease or Pontiac fever.

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

Where does legionellosis come from?

From taxonomic name Legionella + -osis.

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

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