mesentery
mes·en·ter·y/ˈmɛz.ənˌtɛɹ.i/noun
mesentery is spelled M-E-S-E-N-T-E-R-Y, 4 syllables: mes·en·ter·y. The wrong spelling people search most is mesentry: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 25 of all searches for the word. Mesentery is a noun meaning “The membrane that attaches the intestines to the wall of the abdomen, maintaining their position in the…”. The plural of mesentery is mesenteries.
How many letters and syllables are in mesentery?
| Letters | 9: M-E-S-E-N-T-E-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: mes·en·ter·y |
| In writing | about once in every 25 million words; the 152,206th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mesentry, about 80 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 mesentery?
Mesentery is spelled M-E-S-E-N-T-E-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 25 of the searches for mesentery 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 mesentery?
Mesentery appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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 mesentery?
- UK /ˈmɛs.ən.təɹ.i/
- UK /ˈmɛs.ən.tɹi/
- US /ˈmɛz.ənˌtɛɹ.i/
Mesentery has 4 syllables, split mes·en·ter·y in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-mesentery.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of mesentery
- mesenteries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does mesentery mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The membrane that attaches the intestines to the wall of the abdomen, maintaining their position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Mesentery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the membrane that attaches the intestines to the wall of the abdomen:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mésentère |
| German | Gekröse |
| Portuguese | mesentério |
| Spanish | mesenterio, entresijo |
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.
Where does mesentery come from?
From Late Latin mesenterium, from Ancient Greek μεσεντέρῐον (mesentérĭon), from μέσος (mésos, “middle”) + ἔντερον (énteron, “gut”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).