leptospirose
Portuguese, noun/le.pis.to.piˈɾɔ.zi/
leptospirose is spelled L-E-P-T-O-S-P-I-R-O-S-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 73,814th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Leptospirose is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “leptospirosis (an acute disease caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospira)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “zoonose causada por uma bactéria do tipo Leptospira”.
What does leptospirose mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineleptospirosis (an acute disease caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospira)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. zoonose causada por uma bactéria do tipo Leptospira
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of leptospirose
- leptospiroses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce leptospirose?
- Brazil /le.pis.to.piˈɾɔ.zi/
- Brazil /leps.to.piˈɾɔ.zi/
- /le.pis.to.piˈɾɔ.zi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to leptospirose
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is leptospirose in Portuguese?
leptospirose appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).