rhabdomyolysis
/ˌɹæb.doʊ.maɪˈɑl.əs.ɪs/noun
rhabdomyolysis is spelled R-H-A-B-D-O-M-Y-O-L-Y-S-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is rabdomyolysis: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 286 of all searches for the word. Rhabdomyolysis is a noun meaning “The rapid disintegration of striated muscle tissue accompanied by the excretion of myoglobin in the urine”. The plural of rhabdomyolysis is rhabdomyolyses.
How do you spell rhabdomyolysis?
Rhabdomyolysis is spelled R-H-A-B-D-O-M-Y-O-L-Y-S-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 287 of the searches for rhabdomyolysis 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.
What does rhabdomyolysis mean?
noun
- 1
The rapid disintegration of striated muscle tissue accompanied by the excretion of myoglobin in the urine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rhabdomyolysis?
- UK /ˌɹæb.dəʊ.mʌɪˈɒl.ɪs.ɪs/
- UK /ˌɹæb.də.mʌɪˈɒl.ɪs.ɪs/
- US /ˌɹæb.doʊ.maɪˈɑl.əs.ɪs/
Rhabdomyolysis has 6 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-rhabdomyolysis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of rhabdomyolysis
- rhabdomyolyses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rhabdomyolysis?
Rhabdomyolysis appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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).
Rhabdomyolysis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the rapid disintegration of striated muscle tissue accompanied by the excretion :
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rhabdomyolyse |
| Spanish | rabdomiolisis, rabdomiólisis |
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 rhabdomyolysis come from?
From Ancient Greek ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “rod, wand”) + English myo- (“muscle”) + -lysis (“decomposition, breakdown”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).