diplopia
/dɪpˈləʊpiə/noun
diplopia is spelled D-I-P-L-O-P-I-A. The wrong spelling people search most is dipoplia: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 200 of all searches for the word. Diplopia is a noun meaning “An ophthalmologic condition where one perceives two images for a single object; double vision”. The plural of diplopia is diplopias.
How do you spell diplopia?
Diplopia is spelled D-I-P-L-O-P-I-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 200 of the searches for diplopia 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.
What does diplopia mean?
noun
- 1
An ophthalmologic condition where one perceives two images for a single object; double vision.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce diplopia?
- /dɪpˈləʊpiə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of diplopia
- diplopias plural
- diplopy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is diplopia?
Diplopia appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th 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).
Diplopia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ophthalmologic condition where one perceives two images:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | diplopia |
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 diplopia come from?
From diplo- + -opia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).