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postinfection

adjective, adverb, noun

postinfection is spelled P-O-S-T-I-N-F-E-C-T-I-O-N: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, postinfection means “Occurring after an infection” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in postinfection?

Letters13: P-O-S-T-I-N-F-E-C-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 89 million words; the 301,415th 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 postinfection?

Postinfection appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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 postinfection

  • postinfections plural

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

What does postinfection mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Occurring after an infection

adverb

  1. 1

    After an infection

noun

  1. 1

    An infection that arises after a medical procedure.

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

Where does postinfection come from?

From post- + infection.

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

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