psitacosis

/[sit̪aˈkosis]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

psitacosis is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Chlamydophila psittaci). Enfermedad infecciosa que suele ser transmitida por vía aérea a los humanos desde ciertas aves, especialmente los loros, canarios, pavos, pollos y palomas. Pronounced [sit̪aˈkosis].

Key facts for psitacosis
PropertyValue
Headwordpsitacosis
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[sit̪aˈkosis]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

psitacosis is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for psitacosis is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sit̪aˈkosis]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Chlamydophila psittaci). Enfermedad infecciosa que suele ser transmitida por vía aérea a los humanos desde ciertas aves, especialmente los loros, canarios, pavos, pollos y palomas.".

No misspelling variants are generated for psitacosis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is psitacosis, spelled P-S-I-T-A-C-O-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Chlamydophila psittaci). Enfermedad infecciosa que suele ser transmitida por vía aérea a los humanos desde ciertas aves, especialmente los loros, canarios, pavos, pollos y palomas.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "psitacosis"?
"psitacosis" is spelled P-S-I-T-A-C-O-S-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is [sit̪aˈkosis].
What does "psitacosis" mean?
As a noun, "psitacosis" means: (Chlamydophila psittaci). Enfermedad infecciosa que suele ser transmitida por vía aérea a los humanos desde ciertas aves, especialmente los loros, canarios, pavos, pollos y palomas.
How do you pronounce "psitacosis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "psitacosis" is [sit̪aˈkosis]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "psitacosis" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.