leukodystrophy
noun
leukodystrophy is spelled L-E-U-K-O-D-Y-S-T-R-O-P-H-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is leukodystropy: 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. Leukodystrophy is a noun meaning “Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain…”. The plural of leukodystrophy is leukodystrophies.
How many letters and syllables are in leukodystrophy?
| Letters | 14: L-E-U-K-O-D-Y-S-T-R-O-P-H-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 43 million words; the 201,693rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, leukodystropy, 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 leukodystrophy?
Leukodystrophy is spelled L-E-U-K-O-D-Y-S-T-R-O-P-H-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 78 of the searches for leukodystrophy 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 leukodystrophy?
Leukodystrophy appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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).
Forms of leukodystrophy
- leukodystrophies plural
- leucodystrophy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does leukodystrophy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does leukodystrophy come from?
From leuko- + dystrophy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).