hyperostosis
noun
hyperostosis is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-O-S-T-O-S-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is hyperosteosis: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 52 of all searches for the word. Hyperostosis is a noun meaning “An excessive growth or thickening of bone”. The plural of hyperostosis is hyperostoses.
How do you spell hyperostosis?
Hyperostosis is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-O-S-T-O-S-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 52 of the searches for hyperostosis 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.
What does hyperostosis mean?
noun
- 1
An excessive growth or thickening of bone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperostosis
- hyperostoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperostosis?
Hyperostosis appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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 hyperostosis come from?
From hyper- + ostosis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).