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proteinuria

/ˌpɹoʊtiːnˈjʊɹiə/noun

proteinuria is spelled P-R-O-T-E-I-N-U-R-I-A. The wrong spelling people search most is proteinurea: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 61 of all searches for the word. Proteinuria is a noun meaning “The presence of protein in the urine (which is always true in small amounts); and usually, more specifically…”. The plural of proteinuria is proteinurias.

How many letters and syllables are in proteinuria?

Letters11: P-R-O-T-E-I-N-U-R-I-A
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 91,522nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, proteinurea, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell proteinuria?

Proteinuria is spelled P-R-O-T-E-I-N-U-R-I-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 61 of the searches for proteinuria in either form.

proteinuriathe right spelling3,630 searches a month
proteinureae in place of i60 searches a month

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 proteinuria?

Proteinuria appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd 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 proteinuria?

  • US /ˌpɹoʊtiːnˈjʊɹiə/

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

What rhymes with proteinuria?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as proteinuria from its last stressed vowel (/ʊɹiə/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of proteinuria

  • proteinurias plural

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

What does proteinuria mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The presence of protein in the urine (which is always true in small amounts); and usually, more specifically, an excess (hyperproteinuria).

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

Proteinuria in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense protein in the urine:

LanguageWords
Frenchprotéinurie

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 proteinuria come from?

From protein + -uria.

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

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