pessary
/ˈpɛsəɹi/noun
pessary is spelled P-E-S-S-A-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is pessiary: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 141 of all searches for the word. Pessary is a noun meaning “A medical device similar to the outer ring of a contraceptive diaphragm, most commonly used to support a…”. The plural of pessary is pessaries.
How many letters and syllables are in pessary?
| Letters | 7: P-E-S-S-A-R-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 27 million words; the 157,761st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pessiary, about 40 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 pessary?
Pessary is spelled P-E-S-S-A-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 142 of the searches for pessary 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 pessary?
Pessary appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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 pessary?
- /ˈpɛsəɹi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-pessary.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pessary
- pessaries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pessary mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A medical device similar to the outer ring of a contraceptive diaphragm, most commonly used to support a displaced uterus; also called therapeutic pessary.
- 2
A diaphragm or cervical cap.
- 3
A vaginal suppository.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pessary in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense vaginal suppository:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | pesario |
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 pessary come from?
From Middle English pessarie, from Old French pessaire, from Latin pessarium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).