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keratoconjunctivitis

noun

keratoconjunctivitis is spelled K-E-R-A-T-O-C-O-N-J-U-N-C-T-I-V-I-T-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is keratoconjuctivitis: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 57 of all searches for the word. Keratoconjunctivitis is a noun meaning “The inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva of the eye, often caused by infections, allergies, dryness, or…”.

How many letters and syllables are in keratoconjunctivitis?

Letters20: K-E-R-A-T-O-C-O-N-J-U-N-C-T-I-V-I-T-I-S
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, keratoconjuctivitis, 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 keratoconjunctivitis?

Keratoconjunctivitis is spelled K-E-R-A-T-O-C-O-N-J-U-N-C-T-I-V-I-T-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 57 of the searches for keratoconjunctivitis in either form.

keratoconjunctivitisthe right spelling560 searches a month
keratoconjuctivitisa missing n10 searches a month

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 keratoconjunctivitis?

Keratoconjunctivitis appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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 keratoconjunctivitis mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva of the eye, often caused by infections, allergies, dryness, or irritation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Keratoconjunctivitis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense inflammation of the cornea and the conjunctiva:

LanguageWords
Frenchkératoconjonctivite

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 keratoconjunctivitis come from?

From kerato- + conjunctivitis.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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