encephalopathy
/ɛnˌsɛfəˈlɒpəθi/noun
encephalopathy is spelled E-N-C-E-P-H-A-L-O-P-A-T-H-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is encephelopathy: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 345 of all searches for the word. Encephalopathy is a noun meaning “Any of various conditions affecting the brain”. The plural of encephalopathy is encephalopathies.
How many letters and syllables are in encephalopathy?
| Letters | 14: E-N-C-E-P-H-A-L-O-P-A-T-H-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 43,187th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, encephelopathy, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 encephalopathy?
Encephalopathy is spelled E-N-C-E-P-H-A-L-O-P-A-T-H-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 344 of the searches for encephalopathy 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 encephalopathy?
Encephalopathy appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,187th 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).
How do you pronounce encephalopathy?
- /ɛnˌsɛfəˈlɒpəθi/
Encephalopathy has 6 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-encephalopathy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of encephalopathy
- encephalopathies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does encephalopathy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of various conditions affecting the brain.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Encephalopathy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense condition affecting the brain:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | encéphalopathie |
| German | Enzephalopathie |
| Portuguese | encefalopatia |
| Spanish | encefalopatía |
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 encephalopathy come from?
From encephalo- + -pathy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).