pityriasis
/ˌpɪtəˈɹaɪəsɪs/noun
pityriasis is spelled P-I-T-Y-R-I-A-S-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is pitryasis: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 92 of all searches for the word. Pityriasis is a noun meaning “Any of several varieties of skin diseases characterized by the shedding of flakes or scales, such as dandruff”. The plural of pityriasis is pityriases.
How many letters and syllables are in pityriasis?
| Letters | 10: P-I-T-Y-R-I-A-S-I-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 38 million words; the 189,524th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pitryasis, 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 pityriasis?
Pityriasis is spelled P-I-T-Y-R-I-A-S-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 92 of the searches for pityriasis 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 pityriasis?
Pityriasis appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th 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 pityriasis?
- /ˌpɪtəˈɹaɪəsɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pityriasis
- pityriases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pityriasis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of several varieties of skin diseases characterized by the shedding of flakes or scales, such as dandruff.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pityriasis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of several varieties of skin diseases:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | pitiriasis |
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 pityriasis come from?
From New Latin pityriasis, from Koine Greek πιτυρίασις (pituríasis), from Ancient Greek πίτῡρον (pítūron, “bran”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).