pericarditis
/ˌper.ɪ.kɑːrˈdaɪ.t̬əs/noun
pericarditis is spelled P-E-R-I-C-A-R-D-I-T-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is pericariditis: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 769 of all searches for the word. Pericarditis is a noun meaning “Inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart”. The plural of pericarditis is pericarditides or pericardites.
How many letters and syllables are in pericarditis?
| Letters | 12: P-E-R-I-C-A-R-D-I-T-I-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 12 million words; the 103,949th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pericariditis, about 10 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 pericarditis?
Pericarditis is spelled P-E-R-I-C-A-R-D-I-T-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 787 of the searches for pericarditis 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 pericarditis?
Pericarditis appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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 pericarditis?
- US /ˌper.ɪ.kɑːrˈdaɪ.t̬əs/
Pericarditis has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Yangolin-pericarditis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pericarditis
- pericarditides plural
- pericardites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pericarditis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pericarditis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | péricardite |
| German | Perikarditis, Herzbeutelentzündung |
| Spanish | pericarditis |
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 pericarditis come from?
From pericard(ium) + -itis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).