demyelination
noun
demyelination is spelled D-E-M-Y-E-L-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is demyelization: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 66 of all searches for the word. Demyelination is a noun meaning “The removal of the myelin sheath from a nerve fibre, usually as a result of disease causing myelinolysis”. The plural of demyelination is demyelinations.
How many letters and syllables are in demyelination?
| Letters | 13: D-E-M-Y-E-L-I-N-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 109,062nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, demyelization, 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 demyelination?
Demyelination is spelled D-E-M-Y-E-L-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 66 of the searches for demyelination 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 demyelination?
Demyelination appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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 demyelination
- demyelinations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does demyelination mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The removal of the myelin sheath from a nerve fibre, usually as a result of disease causing myelinolysis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Demyelination in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense removal of the myelin sheath:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | démyélinisation |
| Portuguese | desmielinização |
| Spanish | desmielinización |
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 demyelination come from?
From de- + myelination or de- + myelin + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).