hirsutism
noun
hirsutism is spelled H-I-R-S-U-T-I-S-M. The wrong spelling people search most is hirsuitism: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 43 of all searches for the word. Hirsutism is a noun meaning “Excessive and increased hair growth in locations where terminal hair is normally minimal or absent”. The plural of hirsutism is hirsutisms.
How many letters and syllables are in hirsutism?
| Letters | 9: H-I-R-S-U-T-I-S-M |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hirsuitism, about 120 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 hirsutism?
Hirsutism is spelled H-I-R-S-U-T-I-S-M. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 43 of the searches for hirsutism 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 hirsutism?
Hirsutism appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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 hirsutism
- hirsutisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hirsutism mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Excessive and increased hair growth in locations where terminal hair is normally minimal or absent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hirsutism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense excessive and increased hair growth:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hirsutisme |
| German | Hirsutismus |
| Portuguese | hirsutismo |
| Spanish | hirsutismo |
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 hirsutism come from?
From hirsute + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).