psittacose
French, noun\psi.ta.koz\
psittacose is spelled P-S-I-T-T-A-C-O-S-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written French, the 253,038th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Psittacose is a French feminine noun meaning “psittacosis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Maladie des perroquets et des perruches, qui est contagieuse pour les êtres humains et dont les symptômes…”.
What does psittacose mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepsittacosis
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Maladie des perroquets et des perruches, qui est contagieuse pour les êtres humains et dont les symptômes rappellent ceux de la grippe et de la typhoïde.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of psittacose
- psittacoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce psittacose?
- \psi.ta.koz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is psittacose in French?
psittacose appears about once in every 65 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).