percutaneous
/pɜːkjuːˈteɪnɪəs/adjective
percutaneous is spelled P-E-R-C-U-T-A-N-E-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is precutaneous: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 167 of all searches for the word. Percutaneous is an adjective meaning “Taking place through the skin and involving a puncture thereof”.
How many letters and syllables are in percutaneous?
| Letters | 12: P-E-R-C-U-T-A-N-E-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 54,808th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, precutaneous, about 10 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 percutaneous?
Percutaneous is spelled P-E-R-C-U-T-A-N-E-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 167 of the searches for percutaneous 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 percutaneous?
Percutaneous appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th 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 percutaneous?
- UK /pɜːkjuːˈteɪnɪəs/
Percutaneous 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-percutaneous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does percutaneous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Taking place through the skin and involving a puncture thereof.
percutaneous procedure
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Percutaneous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense taking place through the skin:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | percutané |
| German | perkutan |
| Spanish | percutáneo |
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 percutaneous come from?
From per- + cutaneous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).