rickettsia
NOUN
/rɪ'kɛtsiə/
10 LETTERS · 4 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH R
rickettsia is a valid 10-letter word worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
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WORDS WITH FRIENDS
R1I1C3K5E1T1T1S1I1A1
1 + 1 + 3 + 5 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =16 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 32TRIPLE WORD → 48
MEANING
What does rickettsia mean?
NOUN · 1 SENSE
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.
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