blepharitis
/blɛfəɹˈaɪtɪs/noun
blepharitis is a noun meaning “An inflammation of the eyelid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-L-E-P-H-A-R-I-T-I-S, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of blepharitis is blepharitides.
What does blepharitis mean?
noun
- 1
An inflammation of the eyelid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce blepharitis?
- /blɛfəɹˈaɪtɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of blepharitis
- blepharitides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is blepharitis?
Blepharitis appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).
Blepharitis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense inflammation of the eyelid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | blépharite |
| German | Blepharitis |
| Portuguese | blefarite |
| Spanish | blefaritis |
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 blepharitis come from?
From Ancient Greek βλέφαρον (blépharon, “eyelid”) + English -itis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).