dysostosis
noun
dysostosis is a noun meaning “A disorder of the development of bone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-Y-S-O-S-T-O-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dysostosis is dysostoses.
What does dysostosis mean?
noun
- 1
A disorder of the development of bone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of dysostosis
- dysostoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is dysostosis?
Dysostosis appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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).
Dysostosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense disorder of the development of bone:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dysostose |
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 dysostosis come from?
From dys- + Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”) + -osis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).