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nephritic

UK /nɛfˈrɪ.tɪk/adjective, noun

nephritic is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, or affected with nephritis or nephritic syndrome” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-P-H-R-I-T-I-C and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does nephritic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, relating to, or affected with nephritis or nephritic syndrome.

  2. 2

    archaicOf or relating to the kidneys.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone with nephritis.

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

How do you pronounce nephritic?

  • UK /nɛfˈrɪ.tɪk/
  • UK /nɪf-/

Nephritic has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

Forms of nephritic

  • more nephritic comparative
  • most nephritic superlative
  • nephritick
  • nephritics plural

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

How common is nephritic?

Nephritic appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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).

Nephritic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense of or relating to the kidneys:

LanguageWords
Spanishnefrítico

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.

Where does nephritic come from?

From Middle English neufretic, from Medieval Latin nefreticus; compare Classical Latin nephrīticus; equivalent to nephritis + -ic = nephr- (“kidney”) + itis (“inflammation”) + -ic (“related”).

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