paratyphoid
adjective, noun
paratyphoid is an adjective meaning “Resembling typhoid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-A-T-Y-P-H-O-I-D, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does paratyphoid mean?
adjective
- 1
Resembling typhoid.
noun
- 1
paratyphoid fever
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce paratyphoid?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-paratyphoid.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of paratyphoid
- more paratyphoid comparative
- most paratyphoid superlative
- paratyphoids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paratyphoid?
Paratyphoid appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).
Where does paratyphoid come from?
From para- + typhoid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).