DICTIONARY ENTRY
4 SYLLABLES
rickettsia
/rɪ'kɛtsiə/ · rɪkɛtsiə
Rickettsia has 4 syllables: rick · ett · si · a.
rick
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ett
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si
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a
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noun. 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.
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