keratoconus
ke·ra·to·co·nusnoun
keratoconus is spelled K-E-R-A-T-O-C-O-N-U-S, 5 syllables: ke·ra·to·co·nus. The wrong spelling people search most is keratokonus: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 145 of all searches for the word. Keratoconus is a noun meaning “A degenerative noninflammatory disorder of the eye in which structural changes within the cornea cause it to…”.
How many letters and syllables are in keratoconus?
| Letters | 11: K-E-R-A-T-O-C-O-N-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: ke·ra·to·co·nus |
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, keratokonus, about 40 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 keratoconus?
Keratoconus is spelled K-E-R-A-T-O-C-O-N-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 146 of the searches for keratoconus 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 keratoconus?
Keratoconus appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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 keratoconus?
Keratoconus has 5 syllables, split ke·ra·to·co·nus in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does keratoconus mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A degenerative noninflammatory disorder of the eye in which structural changes within the cornea cause it to thin and change to a more conical shape than its normal even curve.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Keratoconus in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense degenerative disorder of the eye:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | kératocône |
| German | Keratokonus |
| Portuguese | ceratocone |
| Spanish | queratocono |
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 keratoconus come from?
From kerato- + Latin conus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).