dysphonia
/dɪsˈfoʊ.ni.ə/noun
dysphonia is a noun meaning “A difficulty in producing vocal sounds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-Y-S-P-H-O-N-I-A and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dysphonia is dysphonias.
What does dysphonia mean?
noun
- 1
A difficulty in producing vocal sounds.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce dysphonia?
- UK /dɪsˈfəʊ.ni.ə/
- US /dɪsˈfoʊ.ni.ə/
Dysphonia has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of dysphonia
- dysphonias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is dysphonia?
Dysphonia appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).
Where does dysphonia come from?
From Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “ill, hard”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”), equivalent to dys- + -phonia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).