polydipsia
noun
polydipsia is spelled P-O-L-Y-D-I-P-S-I-A. The wrong spelling people search most is polydypsia: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 29 of all searches for the word. Polydipsia is a noun meaning “Excessive and constant thirst, caused by disease”. The plural of polydipsia is polydipsias.
How many letters and syllables are in polydipsia?
| Letters | 10: P-O-L-Y-D-I-P-S-I-A |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 36 million words; the 184,844th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, polydypsia, about 160 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 polydipsia?
Polydipsia is spelled P-O-L-Y-D-I-P-S-I-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 29 of the searches for polydipsia 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 polydipsia?
Polydipsia appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).
Forms of polydipsia
- polydipsias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does polydipsia mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Excessive and constant thirst, caused by disease.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Polydipsia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense excessive thirst:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | polydipsie |
| Portuguese | polydipsia |
| Spanish | polydipsia |
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 polydipsia come from?
From poly- + -dipsia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).