laryngoscope
noun
laryngoscope is spelled L-A-R-Y-N-G-O-S-C-O-P-E. The wrong spelling people search most is laryngeoscope: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 78 of all searches for the word. Laryngoscope is a noun meaning “An instrument used for viewing the interior of the larynx”. The plural of laryngoscope is laryngoscopes.
How many letters and syllables are in laryngoscope?
| Letters | 12: L-A-R-Y-N-G-O-S-C-O-P-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 19 million words; the 131,834th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, laryngeoscope, about 10 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 laryngoscope?
Laryngoscope is spelled L-A-R-Y-N-G-O-S-C-O-P-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 78 of the searches for laryngoscope 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 laryngoscope?
Laryngoscope appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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 laryngoscope?
Laryngoscope has 4 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).
Forms of laryngoscope
- laryngoscopes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does laryngoscope mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An instrument used for viewing the interior of the larynx.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Laryngoscope in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense endoscope used for viewing the interior of the larynx:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | laryngoscope |
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.