cheilitis
noun
cheilitis is spelled C-H-E-I-L-I-T-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is chelitis: about 620 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Cheilitis is a noun meaning “inflammation of the lips”. The plural of cheilitis is cheilitides.
How do you spell cheilitis?
Cheilitis is spelled C-H-E-I-L-I-T-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for cheilitis 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.
What does cheilitis mean?
noun
- 1
inflammation of the lips
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cheilitis
- cheilitides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cheilitis?
Cheilitis appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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).
Where does cheilitis come from?
From cheilo- + -itis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).