hydrotherapy
noun
hydrotherapy is a noun meaning “Any of various techniques that use water, either externally or internally, for the treatment of disease and for the soothing of pain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-T-H-E-R-A-P-Y and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydrotherapy is hydrotherapies.
What does hydrotherapy mean?
noun
- 1
Any of various techniques that use water, either externally or internally, for the treatment of disease and for the soothing of pain.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hydrotherapy?
- US
Hydrotherapy has 5 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)-Flame,_not_lame-hydrotherapy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hydrotherapy
- hydrotherapies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydrotherapy?
Hydrotherapy appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st 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).
Hydrotherapy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense technique that uses water for the treatment of disease:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hydrothérapie |
| German | Hydrotherapie, Wasserheilkunde, Hydropathie |
| Portuguese | hidroterapia |
| Spanish | hidroterapia |
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.