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RSI

noun

RSI is a noun meaning “Initialism of repetitive strain injury” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-S-I, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of RSI is RSIs.

What does RSI mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of repetitive strain injury.

  2. 2

    Initialism of recursive self-improvement.

  3. 3

    Initialism of relative strength index.

  4. 4

    Initialism of rapid sequence induction.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of RSI

  • RSIs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is RSI?

RSI appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,832nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).