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neuroma

noun

neuroma is spelled N-E-U-R-O-M-A: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, neuroma means “A tumour composed of nerve cells” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of neuroma is neuromas or neuromata.

How many letters and syllables are in neuroma?

Letters7: N-E-U-R-O-M-A
In writingabout once in every 12 million words; the 102,771st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is neuroma?

Neuroma appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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 neuroma

  • neuromas plural
  • neuromata plural

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

What does neuroma mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A tumour composed of nerve cells.

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

Neuroma in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense tumor composed of nerve cells:

LanguageWords
Frenchnévrome
Spanishneuroma

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 neuroma come from?

From neuro- + -oma.

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

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