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nontuberculous

adjective

nontuberculous is spelled N-O-N-T-U-B-E-R-C-U-L-O-U-S: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, nontuberculous means “Not tuberculous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in nontuberculous?

Letters14: N-O-N-T-U-B-E-R-C-U-L-O-U-S
In writingabout once in every 95 million words; the 313,259th 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 nontuberculous?

Nontuberculous appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).

Forms of nontuberculous

  • more nontuberculous comparative
  • most nontuberculous superlative

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

What does nontuberculous mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Not tuberculous.

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

Where does nontuberculous come from?

From non- + tuberculous.

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

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