typhus
French, noun/ti.fys/
typhus is spelled T-Y-P-H-U-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Typhus is a French masculine noun meaning “typhus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom donné à diverses rickettsioses véhiculées par des arthropodes (poux, puces, acariens, …) et spécialement…”.
What does typhus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetyphus
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom donné à diverses rickettsioses véhiculées par des arthropodes (poux, puces, acariens, …) et spécialement le typhus exanthématique,
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.
How do you pronounce typhus?
- /ti.fys/
- \ti.fys\
- [ti.fys]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to typhus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is typhus in French?
typhus appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).