meningococcal
adjective
meningococcal is spelled M-E-N-I-N-G-O-C-O-C-C-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is meningoccocal: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 85 of all searches for the word. Meningococcal is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or caused by meningococci”.
How many letters and syllables are in meningococcal?
| Letters | 13: M-E-N-I-N-G-O-C-O-C-C-A-L |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 65,913th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, meningoccocal, 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 meningococcal?
Meningococcal is spelled M-E-N-I-N-G-O-C-O-C-C-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 85 of the searches for meningococcal 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 meningococcal?
Meningococcal appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,913th 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).
What does meningococcal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or caused by meningococci.
The patient had a severe meningococcal infection.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does meningococcal come from?
From meningococcus + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).