pruritus
/pɹuːˈɹaɪtəs/noun
pruritus is spelled P-R-U-R-I-T-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is pruritis: about 3,060 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Pruritus is a noun meaning “Itching; especially, severe itching of undamaged skin; caused by allergy, infection, lymphoma, etc”. The plural of pruritus is prurituses.
How many letters and syllables are in pruritus?
| Letters | 8: P-R-U-R-I-T-U-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 9 million words; the 90,432nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pruritis, about 3,060 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 pruritus?
Pruritus is spelled P-R-U-R-I-T-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for pruritus 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 pruritus?
Pruritus appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 90,432nd 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 pruritus?
- /pɹuːˈɹaɪtəs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pruritus
- prurituses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pruritus mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Itching; especially, severe itching of undamaged skin; caused by allergy, infection, lymphoma, etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pruritus in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | prurito |
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 pruritus come from?
Borrowed from Latin prūrītus (“an itch, an itching”), from prūriō (“to itch”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).