ophthalmopathy
noun
ophthalmopathy is a noun meaning “eye disease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-P-H-T-H-A-L-M-O-P-A-T-H-Y, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ophthalmopathy is ophthalmopathies.
What does ophthalmopathy mean?
noun
- 1
eye disease
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ophthalmopathy
- ophthalmopathies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ophthalmopathy?
Ophthalmopathy appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).
Ophthalmopathy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense eye disease:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | oftalmopatia |
| Spanish | oftalmopatía |
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 ophthalmopathy come from?
From ophthalmo- + -pathy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).