myositis
noun
myositis is spelled M-Y-O-S-I-T-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is mysositis: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 769 of all searches for the word. Myositis is a noun meaning “Inflammation of the muscles”. The plural of myositis is myositides.
How many letters and syllables are in myositis?
| Letters | 8: M-Y-O-S-I-T-I-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 12 million words; the 103,949th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mysositis, about 10 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 myositis?
Myositis is spelled M-Y-O-S-I-T-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 749 of the searches for myositis 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 myositis?
Myositis appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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 myositis
- myositides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does myositis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Inflammation of the muscles.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Myositis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense inflammation of the muscles:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | miositis |
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 myositis come from?
Irregular formation from Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs, “muscle”) (genitive μυός (muós)) + -itis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).