lipodystrophy
noun
lipodystrophy is spelled L-I-P-O-D-Y-S-T-R-O-P-H-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is lipodistrophy: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 70 of all searches for the word. Lipodystrophy is a noun meaning “A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue”. The plural of lipodystrophy is lipodystrophies.
How many letters and syllables are in lipodystrophy?
| Letters | 13: L-I-P-O-D-Y-S-T-R-O-P-H-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, lipodistrophy, about 20 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 lipodystrophy?
Lipodystrophy is spelled L-I-P-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 70 of the searches for lipodystrophy 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 lipodystrophy?
Lipodystrophy appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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 lipodystrophy
- lipodystrophies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lipodystrophy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does lipodystrophy come from?
From lipo- + dystrophy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).