cholecystitis
cho·le·cy·sti·tis/ˌkoʊ.lə.sɪˈstaɪ.tɪs/noun
cholecystitis is spelled C-H-O-L-E-C-Y-S-T-I-T-I-S, 5 syllables: cho·le·cy·sti·tis. The wrong spelling people search most is cholecystis: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 169 of all searches for the word. Cholecystitis is a noun meaning “An inflammation of the gall bladder”. The plural of cholecystitis is cholecystites or cholecystitides.
How do you spell cholecystitis?
Cholecystitis is spelled C-H-O-L-E-C-Y-S-T-I-T-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 169 of the searches for cholecystitis 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 cholecystitis mean?
noun
- 1
An inflammation of the gall bladder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cholecystitis?
- US /ˌkoʊ.lə.sɪˈstaɪ.tɪs/
- US /ˌkɑl.ə.sɪˈstaɪ.tɪs/
- UK /ˌkɒl.ə.sɪˈstaɪ.tɪs/
Cholecystitis has 5 syllables, split cho·le·cy·sti·tis in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-cholecystitis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cholecystitis
- cholecystites plural
- cholecystitides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cholecystitis?
Cholecystitis appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).
Cholecystitis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense inflammation of the gall bladder:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cholécystite |
| German | Gallenblasenentzündung |
| Portuguese | colecistite |
| Spanish | colecistitis |
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 cholecystitis come from?
From cholecyst + -itis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).