craniectomy
noun
craniectomy is spelled C-R-A-N-I-E-C-T-O-M-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is crainiectomy: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 47 of all searches for the word. Craniectomy is a noun meaning “The surgical procedure for removing a part of the skull, called a bone flap, to relieve intracranial pressure”. The plural of craniectomy is craniectomies.
How many letters and syllables are in craniectomy?
| Letters | 11: C-R-A-N-I-E-C-T-O-M-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 51 million words; the 222,788th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, crainiectomy, about 20 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 craniectomy?
Craniectomy is spelled C-R-A-N-I-E-C-T-O-M-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 47 of the searches for craniectomy 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 craniectomy?
Craniectomy appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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 craniectomy
- craniectomies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does craniectomy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The surgical procedure for removing a part of the skull, called a bone flap, to relieve intracranial pressure
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Craniectomy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense surgical procedure:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | craniectomia |
| Spanish | craniectomía |
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 craniectomy come from?
From crani- + -ectomy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).