salmonellosis
noun
salmonellosis is a noun meaning “Any of several diseases caused by infection with Salmonella bacteria” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-L-M-O-N-E-L-L-O-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of salmonellosis is salmonelloses.
What does salmonellosis mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several diseases caused by infection with Salmonella bacteria
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of salmonellosis
- salmonelloses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is salmonellosis?
Salmonellosis appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).
Salmonellosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense disease:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | salmonellose |
| Spanish | salmonelosis |
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 salmonellosis come from?
From salmonella + -osis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).