arthrodesis
/aɹθˈɹɒdɪsɪs/noun
arthrodesis is spelled A-R-T-H-R-O-D-E-S-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is athrodesis: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 40 of all searches for the word. Arthrodesis is a noun meaning “The surgical fusion of a joint between two or more bones so that the joint can no longer move; artificial…”. The plural of arthrodesis is arthrodeses.
How many letters and syllables are in arthrodesis?
| Letters | 11: A-R-T-H-R-O-D-E-S-I-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 36 million words; the 184,844th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, athrodesis, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell arthrodesis?
Arthrodesis is spelled A-R-T-H-R-O-D-E-S-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 40 of the searches for arthrodesis in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is arthrodesis?
Arthrodesis appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).
How do you pronounce arthrodesis?
- /aɹθˈɹɒdɪsɪs/
- /ˌaɹθɹoʊˈdiːsɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of arthrodesis
- arthrodeses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does arthrodesis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The surgical fusion of a joint between two or more bones so that the joint can no longer move; artificial ankylosis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Arthrodesis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fusion of a joint:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | artrodese, artródese |
| Spanish | artrodesis |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does arthrodesis come from?
From arthro- + -desis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).