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mycobacterial

adjective

mycobacterial is spelled M-Y-C-O-B-A-C-T-E-R-I-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is myobacterial: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Mycobacterial is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to mycobacteria”.

How do you spell mycobacterial?

Mycobacterial is spelled M-Y-C-O-B-A-C-T-E-R-I-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for mycobacterial in either form.

mycobacterialthe right spelling40 searches a month
myobacteriala missing c10 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.

What does mycobacterial mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to mycobacteria

    Leprosy is caused by a mycobacterial infection.

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

How common is mycobacterial?

Mycobacterial appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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).

Where does mycobacterial come from?

From mycobacteria + -al.

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