ophthalmoscope
noun
ophthalmoscope is spelled O-P-H-T-H-A-L-M-O-S-C-O-P-E. The wrong spelling people search most is opthalmoscope: about 190 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Ophthalmoscope is a noun meaning “An instrument for examining the interior of the eye (that is, for ophthalmoscopy)”. The plural of ophthalmoscope is ophthalmoscopes.
How do you spell ophthalmoscope?
Ophthalmoscope is spelled O-P-H-T-H-A-L-M-O-S-C-O-P-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for ophthalmoscope 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.
What does ophthalmoscope mean?
noun
- 1
An instrument for examining the interior of the eye (that is, for ophthalmoscopy).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ophthalmoscope?
Ophthalmoscope 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).
Forms of ophthalmoscope
- ophthalmoscopes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ophthalmoscope?
Ophthalmoscope appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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).
Ophthalmoscope in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense instrument for examining the interior of the eye:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Ophthalmoskop |
| Portuguese | oftalmoscópio |
| Spanish | oftalmoscopio |
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 ophthalmoscope come from?
From ophthalmo- + -scope.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).