neuropathy
/ˌnjuːˈrɒ.pə.θiː/noun
neuropathy is spelled N-E-U-R-O-P-A-T-H-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is neopathy: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 588 of all searches for the word. Neuropathy is a noun meaning “Any disease of the peripheral nervous system; peripheral neuropathy”. The plural of neuropathy is neuropathies.
How many letters and syllables are in neuropathy?
| Letters | 10: N-E-U-R-O-P-A-T-H-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 35,748th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, neopathy, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 neuropathy?
Neuropathy is spelled N-E-U-R-O-P-A-T-H-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 602 of the searches for neuropathy 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 neuropathy?
Neuropathy appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,748th 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).
How do you pronounce neuropathy?
- /ˌnjuːˈrɒ.pə.θiː/
Neuropathy has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-neuropathy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of neuropathy
- neuropathies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does neuropathy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any disease of the peripheral nervous system; peripheral neuropathy.
Long-standing diabetes often causes neuropathy in the retinas, fingertips, and toes.
- 2
Any disease of the nerves and nervous system, usually and more specifically the peripheral nervous system, thus including both non-neuraxial and neuraxial instances of neural damage or dysfunction but excluding the neuraxis's psychiatric aspects (mental illnesses).
the contribution of central neuropathy on postural impairment observed in diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Neuropathy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense disease of the nervous system:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | neuropathie |
| German | Nervenleiden, Neuropathie |
| Portuguese | neuropatia |
| Spanish | neuropatía |
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 neuropathy come from?
From neuro- + -pathy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).