hysterectomy
/hɪstəˈɹɛktəmi/noun
hysterectomy is spelled H-Y-S-T-E-R-E-C-T-O-M-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is historectomy: about 400 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 41 of all searches for the word. Hysterectomy is a noun meaning “The surgical procedure to remove all of or part of the uterus”. The plural of hysterectomy is hysterectomies.
How many letters and syllables are in hysterectomy?
| Letters | 12: H-Y-S-T-E-R-E-C-T-O-M-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 38,863rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, historectomy, about 400 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 hysterectomy?
Hysterectomy is spelled H-Y-S-T-E-R-E-C-T-O-M-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 41 of the searches for hysterectomy 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 hysterectomy?
Hysterectomy appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd 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 hysterectomy?
- /hɪstəˈɹɛktəmi/
Hysterectomy 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-hysterectomy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hysterectomy
- hysterectomies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hysterectomy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The surgical procedure to remove all of or part of the uterus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate hysterectomy?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of hysterectomy: hysto.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hysterectomy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense surgical removal of the uterus or part thereof:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hystérectomie |
| German | Gebärmutterentfernung, Hysterektomie |
| Portuguese | histerectomia |
| Spanish | histerectomía |
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 hysterectomy come from?
From hyster- + -ectomy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).