myelitis
noun
myelitis is spelled M-Y-E-L-I-T-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is myletis: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 43 of all searches for the word. Myelitis is a noun meaning “Inflammation of the spinal cord or of bone marrow”. The plural of myelitis is myelites or myelitides.
How many letters and syllables are in myelitis?
| Letters | 8: M-Y-E-L-I-T-I-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, myletis, 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 myelitis?
Myelitis is spelled M-Y-E-L-I-T-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 43 of the searches for myelitis 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 myelitis?
Myelitis appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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 myelitis
- myelites plural
- myelitides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does myelitis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Inflammation of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does myelitis come from?
From myelo- + -itis. From Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós, “marrow”) + -ῖτις (-îtis, “fire”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).