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malabsorption

noun

malabsorption is spelled M-A-L-A-B-S-O-R-P-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is malabsorbtion: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 26 of all searches for the word. Malabsorption is a noun meaning “The state arising from abnormality in digestion or absorption of food nutrients across the gastrointestinal…”. The plural of malabsorption is malabsorptions.

How many letters and syllables are in malabsorption?

Letters13: M-A-L-A-B-S-O-R-P-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 84,254th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, malabsorbtion, about 30 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 malabsorption?

Malabsorption is spelled M-A-L-A-B-S-O-R-P-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for malabsorption in either form.

malabsorptionthe right spelling750 searches a month
malabsorbtionb in place of p30 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 malabsorption?

Malabsorption appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th 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 malabsorption

  • malabsorptions plural

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

What does malabsorption mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state arising from abnormality in digestion or absorption of food nutrients across the gastrointestinal tract.

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

Malabsorption in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense state of abnormal absorption:

LanguageWords
Frenchmalabsorbtion
GermanMalabsorption
Spanishmalabsorción

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.

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