atherectomy
noun
atherectomy is spelled A-T-H-E-R-E-C-T-O-M-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is artherectomy: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Atherectomy is a noun meaning “The surgical procedure to remove plaque from an artery”. The plural of atherectomy is atherectomies.
How many letters and syllables are in atherectomy?
| Letters | 11: A-T-H-E-R-E-C-T-O-M-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 59 million words; the 240,237th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, artherectomy, about 50 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 atherectomy?
Atherectomy is spelled A-T-H-E-R-E-C-T-O-M-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for atherectomy 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 atherectomy?
Atherectomy appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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).
Forms of atherectomy
- atherectomies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does atherectomy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The surgical procedure to remove plaque from an artery.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Atherectomy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense surgical procedure:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | aterectomía |
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 atherectomy come from?
From ather- + -ectomy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).