papillomavirus
/papɪˈləʊməvʌɪɹəs/noun
papillomavirus is spelled P-A-P-I-L-L-O-M-A-V-I-R-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is papilomavirus: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 31 of all searches for the word. Papillomavirus is a noun meaning “Any of various viruses that cause warts”. The plural of papillomavirus is papillomaviruses.
How many letters and syllables are in papillomavirus?
| Letters | 14: P-A-P-I-L-L-O-M-A-V-I-R-U-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 65,913th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, papilomavirus, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 papillomavirus?
Papillomavirus is spelled P-A-P-I-L-L-O-M-A-V-I-R-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 31 of the searches for papillomavirus 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 papillomavirus?
Papillomavirus appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,913th 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 papillomavirus?
- UK /papɪˈləʊməvʌɪɹəs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of papillomavirus
- papillomaviruses plural
- papilloma virus
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does papillomavirus mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of various viruses that cause warts.
- 2
Now specifically, a member of the family Papillomaviridae.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Papillomavirus in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense member of the genus Papillomavirus:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Papillomavirus, Papillomvirus |
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 papillomavirus come from?
From papilloma + virus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).