leishmaniasis
/liːʃməˈnaɪəsɪs/
"leishmaniasis" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leishmaniasis” is uncommon English (frequency #76,942 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,942
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several distinct forms of a disease caused by any of the protozoans of the genus Leishmania, transmitted to humans and animals by bloodsucking sandflies.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leishmaniasis · leishmaniasis · English
leishmaniasis · rank #76,942 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,942
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH legionnaire
Nearest frequency peer: legionnaire (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “leishmaniasis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lede
lede
23,064 corpus weight
- Ledoux
Ledoux
23,063 corpus weight
- leftward
leftward
23,062 corpus weight
- legionnaire
legionnaire
23,060 corpus weight
- leishmanias…
leishmaniasis
23,059 corpus weight
- Lepore
Lepore
23,055 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “leishmaniasis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leishmaniasis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /liːʃməˈnaɪəsɪs/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #76,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “leishmaniasis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
leishmaniasis is uncommon English at frequency #76,942 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /liːʃməˈnaɪəsɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of several distinct forms of a disease caused by any of the protozoans of the genus Leishmania, transmitted to humans and animals by bloodsucking sandflies.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for leishmaniasis, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Leishmania + -iasis The correct English form is leishmaniasis, spelled L-E-I-S-H-M-A-N-I-A-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Any of several distinct forms of a disease caused by any of the protozoans of the genus Leishmania, transmitted to humans and animals by bloodsucking sandflies.
Etymology
Leishmania + -iasis
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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