trypanosomiasis
noun
trypanosomiasis is a noun meaning “Any of several diseases or infections caused by a trypanosome” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-Y-P-A-N-O-S-O-M-I-A-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of trypanosomiasis is trypanosomiases.
What does trypanosomiasis mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several diseases or infections caused by a trypanosome.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce trypanosomiasis?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-trypanosomiasis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of trypanosomiasis
- trypanosomiases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is trypanosomiasis?
Trypanosomiasis appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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).
Trypanosomiasis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense disease caused by a trypanosome:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | trypanosomiase |
| Portuguese | tripanossomíase |
| Spanish | tripanosomiasis |
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 trypanosomiasis come from?
From trypanosome + -iasis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).