rickettsia
/rɪ'kɛtsiə/
noun
10 letters4 syllables16 points in Scrabble®17 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS1
NOUN
1
Any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings.
WORD FORMS
Related formrickettsial
GAME SCORES
Scrabble®16 points
Words With Friends®17 points
Double word32 points
Triple word48 points
GOOD TO KNOW
Pig Latinickettsiaray
Starts & ends withR … A
Syllablesrick · ett · si · a
SYNONYMS & RELATED1
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