cholangiocarcinoma
noun
cholangiocarcinoma is spelled C-H-O-L-A-N-G-I-O-C-A-R-C-I-N-O-M-A. The wrong spelling people search most is cholangocarcinoma: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 667 of all searches for the word. Cholangiocarcinoma is a noun meaning “A rare and aggressive cancer that starts in the bile ducts”. The plural of cholangiocarcinoma is cholangiocarcinomas or cholangiocarcinomata.
How do you spell cholangiocarcinoma?
Cholangiocarcinoma is spelled C-H-O-L-A-N-G-I-O-C-A-R-C-I-N-O-M-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 674 of the searches for cholangiocarcinoma 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 cholangiocarcinoma mean?
noun
- 1
A rare and aggressive cancer that starts in the bile ducts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cholangiocarcinoma?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-cholangiocarcinoma.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cholangiocarcinoma
- cholangiocarcinomas plural
- cholangiocarcinomata plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cholangiocarcinoma?
Cholangiocarcinoma appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).
Cholangiocarcinoma in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pathology: cancer of the bile duct:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | colangiocarcinoma |
| Spanish | colangiocarcinoma |
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 cholangiocarcinoma come from?
From cholangio- + carcinoma.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).