cryptorchidism
noun
cryptorchidism is spelled C-R-Y-P-T-O-R-C-H-I-D-I-S-M. The wrong spelling people search most is cryptochidism: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Cryptorchidism is a noun meaning “The failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum”. The plural of cryptorchidism is cryptorchidisms.
How many letters and syllables are in cryptorchidism?
| Letters | 14: C-R-Y-P-T-O-R-C-H-I-D-I-S-M |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 35 million words; the 180,281st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, cryptochidism, about 80 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 cryptorchidism?
Cryptorchidism is spelled C-R-Y-P-T-O-R-C-H-I-D-I-S-M. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for cryptorchidism 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 cryptorchidism?
Cryptorchidism 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).
Forms of cryptorchidism
- cryptorchidisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cryptorchidism mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cryptorchidism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense The failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cryptorchidie |
| Portuguese | criptorquia, criptorquidia |
| Spanish | criptorquidia |
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 cryptorchidism come from?
From cryptorchid + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).