adiposis
/ˌæd.ɪˈpəʊ.sɪs/
"adiposis" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adiposis” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A condition marked by the accumulation of adipose (fatty) tissue.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adiposis · adiposis · English
adiposis · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adiposis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌæd.ɪˈpəʊ.sɪs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “adiposis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
adiposis is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌæd.ɪˈpəʊ.sɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A condition marked by the accumulation of adipose (fatty) tissue.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for adiposis, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From adipo- + -osis. The correct English form is adiposis, spelled A-D-I-P-O-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1A condition marked by the accumulation of adipose (fatty) tissue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adiposis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These adiposes are etiologically divisible into two types; those, on the one hand, which constitute a phenomenon of hypo- or athyroidea; and, those, on the other hand, which are sequela to hypoplasias and to functional errors in the germinal organs (castration, genital infantilism, etc).
2004, Günther Wittlinger, Hildegard Wittlinger, Textbook of Dr. Vodders: Manual Lymph Drainage, Volume 1: Basic Course, 7th Edition, Complementary Medicine Series, page 92, One should always differentiate between adiposis and panniculopathia-oedemato-fibrosclerotica (the so-called cellulite).
Etymology
From adipo- + -osis.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.