dermatomyositis
noun
dermatomyositis is spelled D-E-R-M-A-T-O-M-Y-O-S-I-T-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is dematomyositis: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 357 of all searches for the word. Dermatomyositis is a noun meaning “A disease of connective tissue, related to polymyositis, characterized by inflammation of the muscles and skin”. The plural of dermatomyositis is dermatomyositides.
How many letters and syllables are in dermatomyositis?
| Letters | 15: D-E-R-M-A-T-O-M-Y-O-S-I-T-I-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 30 million words; the 165,739th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dematomyositis, 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 dermatomyositis?
Dermatomyositis is spelled D-E-R-M-A-T-O-M-Y-O-S-I-T-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 362 of the searches for dermatomyositis 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 dermatomyositis?
Dermatomyositis appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th 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 dermatomyositis
- dermatomyositides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dermatomyositis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A disease of connective tissue, related to polymyositis, characterized by inflammation of the muscles and skin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate dermatomyositis?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of dermatomyositis: DM.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does dermatomyositis come from?
From dermato- + myositis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).