periosteal
adjective
periosteal is spelled P-E-R-I-O-S-T-E-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is periostial: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Periosteal is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the periosteum”.
How many letters and syllables are in periosteal?
| Letters | 10: P-E-R-I-O-S-T-E-A-L |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, periostial, 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 periosteal?
Periosteal is spelled P-E-R-I-O-S-T-E-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 20 of the searches for periosteal 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 periosteal?
Periosteal appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).
What does periosteal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the periosteum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does periosteal come from?
From peri- + osteal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).