interosseous
adjective
interosseous is spelled I-N-T-E-R-O-S-S-E-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is interroseous: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Interosseous is an adjective meaning “Between bones”.
How many letters and syllables are in interosseous?
| Letters | 12: I-N-T-E-R-O-S-S-E-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 23 million words; the 145,125th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, interroseous, about 10 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 interosseous?
Interosseous is spelled I-N-T-E-R-O-S-S-E-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for interosseous 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 interosseous?
Interosseous appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).
What does interosseous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Between bones.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Interosseous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense between bones:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | interóseo |
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 interosseous come from?
From inter- + osseous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).