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polyuria

noun

polyuria is spelled P-O-L-Y-U-R-I-A: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, polyuria means “The production of an abnormally large amount of urine; one symptom of diabetes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of polyuria is polyurias.

How many letters and syllables are in polyuria?

Letters8: P-O-L-Y-U-R-I-A
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is polyuria?

Polyuria appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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 polyuria

  • polyurias plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does polyuria mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The production of an abnormally large amount of urine; one symptom of diabetes

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Polyuria in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchpolyurie
GermanPolyurie
Portuguesepoliúria
Spanishpoliuria

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 polyuria come from?

From poly- + -uria.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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