nasopharyngeal
adjective
nasopharyngeal is spelled N-A-S-O-P-H-A-R-Y-N-G-E-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is nasopharngeal: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 71 of all searches for the word. Nasopharyngeal is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the nose and the pharynx”.
How do you spell nasopharyngeal?
Nasopharyngeal is spelled N-A-S-O-P-H-A-R-Y-N-G-E-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 71 of the searches for nasopharyngeal 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.
What does nasopharyngeal mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the nose and the pharynx
- 2
Of or pertaining to the nasopharynx
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nasopharyngeal?
Nasopharyngeal appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 98,107th 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).