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Definition: Halitosis |
HalitosisNoun1. Offensive breath. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "halitosis" was first used: 1874. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An offensive, foul breath odor resulting from a variety of causes such as poor oral hygiene, dental or oral infections, or the ingestion of certain foods. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Halitosis |
| Specialty definitions using "halitosis": blue goo. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Halitosis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (bad breath, bad luck, Breath Regenesis, Breath, bad, Cellular Theta Breath, halitosis, Transformational Breath), Spanish (halitosis). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Halitosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Halitosis" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "halitosis": halitosis-causing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "halitosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | frymë me erë të keqe nga goja. (various references) | |
Arabic | البخر رائحة الفم الكريهة, بخار (fume, reek, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лош дъх на устата. (various references) | |
Chinese | 口臭. (various references) | |
Czech | zápach z úst. (various references) | |
Danish | foetor ex ore (foul breath), dårlig ånde (bad breath, foul breath), ,halitose (bad breath). (various references) | |
Dutch | halitose (bad breath), stinkend adem (bad breath), ozostomie (foul breath). (various references) | |
Farsi | گنددهان , تنفس بدبو. (various references) | |
Finnish | halitosis (bad breath), pahanhajuinen hengitys (bad breath), foetor ex ore (bad breath). (various references) | |
French | mauvaise haleine. (various references) | |
German | Mundgeruch. (various references) | |
Greek | απόπνοια δύσοσμη (foul breath), δύσοσμη απόπνοια (bad breath), δύσομοσ αναπνοή, δυσοσμία του στόματοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | באשת " שימ". (various references) | |
Hungarian | rossz szájszag. (various references) | |
Italian | alitosi (bad breath, foul breath). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 口臭 (bad breath). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "うしゅう (bad breath, Canton, Guangzhou, short course, the public, training). (various references) | |
Manx | ennal vreinn, drogh-ennal. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alitosishay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ozostomia (foul breath), mau hlito. (various references) | |
Russian | дурной запах изо рта. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zadah iz usta. (various references) | |
Spanish | halitosis (bad breath, foul breath). (various references) | |
Swedish | dålig andedräkt. (various references) | |
Turkish | kötü kokulu nefes, ağız kokusu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | поганий запах з рота. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chứng thối m"m. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | foetor ex ore, halitosis, halitus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Halitosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: halatosis, Haliotis, halitosos, halitotic, hallitosis, halotosis, Heliposis, helminthosis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-i-l-o-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: holists, lithias, saltish, tahsils. | |
-3 letters: aiolis, assoil, hoists, holist, hostas, lathis, latish, lithia, lithos, lotahs, shoals, shoats, sloths, tahsil, thiols. | |
-4 letters: aioli, alist, altho, altos, hails, halos, halts, hilts, hists, hoist, holts, hosta, hosts, iotas, laith, lasso, lasts, lathi, laths, lists, litai, litas, litho, loath, lotah, lotas, oasis, oasts, oaths, ohias, ossia, ostia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-i-l-o-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: hospitalise, scholiastic, sophistical. | |
+3 letters: hospitalised, hospitalises, hospitalizes, urolithiases, urolithiasis. | |
+4 letters: astonishingly, hospitalising, hospitalities, relationships, rhinoplasties, scholasticism, sophistically. | |
+5 letters: cholelithiases, cholelithiasis, clavichordists, histoplasmosis, historicalness, lachrymosities, legislatorship, rehospitalizes, scholasticisms. | |
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