brachydactyly
noun
brachydactyly is spelled B-R-A-C-H-Y-D-A-C-T-Y-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is brachydactily: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 70 of all searches for the word. Brachydactyly is a noun meaning “Abnormal shortness of the fingers or toes”. The plural of brachydactyly is brachydactylies.
How many letters and syllables are in brachydactyly?
| Letters | 13: B-R-A-C-H-Y-D-A-C-T-Y-L-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 98 million words; the 317,168th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, brachydactily, about 10 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 brachydactyly?
Brachydactyly is spelled B-R-A-C-H-Y-D-A-C-T-Y-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 70 of the searches for brachydactyly 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 brachydactyly?
Brachydactyly appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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 brachydactyly
- brachydactylies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does brachydactyly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Abnormal shortness of the fingers or toes
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Brachydactyly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense abnormal shortness of the fingers or toes:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | braquidactilia |
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 brachydactyly come from?
From brachy- + dactyly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).