nasopharyngitis
noun
nasopharyngitis is a noun meaning “Inflammation of the nasal passages and upper pharynx” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-S-O-P-H-A-R-Y-N-G-I-T-I-S, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does nasopharyngitis mean?
noun
- 1
Inflammation of the nasal passages and upper pharynx.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nasopharyngitis?
Nasopharyngitis appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).
Nasopharyngitis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense inflammation of the nasal passages and upper pharynx:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rhinopharyngite |
| German | Rhinopharyngitis |
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 nasopharyngitis come from?
From naso- + pharyngitis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).