ophthalmology
/ˌɒfθə(l)ˈmɒləd͡ʒi/noun
ophthalmology is spelled O-P-H-T-H-A-L-M-O-L-O-G-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is opthamology: about 1,980 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Ophthalmology is a noun meaning “The anatomy, functions, pathology, and treatment of the eye”. The plural of ophthalmology is ophthalmologies.
How many letters and syllables are in ophthalmology?
| Letters | 13: O-P-H-T-H-A-L-M-O-L-O-G-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 31,549th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, opthamology, about 1,980 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell ophthalmology?
Ophthalmology is spelled O-P-H-T-H-A-L-M-O-L-O-G-Y. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for ophthalmology 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 ophthalmology?
Ophthalmology appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,549th 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 ophthalmology?
- UK /ˌɒfθə(l)ˈmɒləd͡ʒi/
- UK /ˌɒpθə(l)ˈmɒləd͡ʒi/
- UK /ˌɒfθælˈmɒləd͡ʒi/
Ophthalmology has 5 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-ophthalmology.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Paul2520-ophthalmology.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with ophthalmology?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as ophthalmology from its last stressed vowel (/ɒlədʒi/, British pronunciation):
- astrology
- zoology
- etymology
- musicology
- tautology
- volcanology
- necrology
- iconology
- angelology
- psychoneuroimmunology
- teleradiology
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of ophthalmology
- ophthalmologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ophthalmology mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The anatomy, functions, pathology, and treatment of the eye.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate ophthalmology?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of ophthalmology: ophthal., ophthalmol, ophthalmol..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ophthalmology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense eye medicine:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ophtalmologie |
| German | Augenheilkunde, Ophthalmologie |
| Portuguese | oftalmologia |
| Spanish | oftalmología |
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 ophthalmology come from?
From ophthalmo- + -logy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).