condyle
/ˈkɒndɪl/noun
condyle is spelled C-O-N-D-Y-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is chondyle: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 81 of all searches for the word. Condyle is a noun meaning “A smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone”. The plural of condyle is condyles.
How many letters and syllables are in condyle?
| Letters | 7: C-O-N-D-Y-L-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, chondyle, 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 condyle?
Condyle is spelled C-O-N-D-Y-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 81 of the searches for condyle 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 condyle?
Condyle appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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).
How do you pronounce condyle?
- /ˈkɒndɪl/
- /ˈkɒndaɪl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-condyle.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of condyle
- condyles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does condyle mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Condyle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense prominence on a bone:
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 condyle come from?
From French condyle, from Latin condylus, from Ancient Greek κόνδυλος (kóndulos, “knuckle”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).