rhinoplasty
noun
rhinoplasty is a noun meaning “A type of plastic surgery that is used to improve the function (reconstructive surgery) or appearance (cosmetic surgery) of a person's nose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-H-I-N-O-P-L-A-S-T-Y and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rhinoplasty is rhinoplasties.
What does rhinoplasty mean?
noun
- 1
A type of plastic surgery that is used to improve the function (reconstructive surgery) or appearance (cosmetic surgery) of a person's nose.
- 2
An instance of such surgery; one operation (procedure).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rhinoplasty?
- US
Rhinoplasty has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-rhinoplasty.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of rhinoplasty
- rhinoplasties plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rhinoplasty?
Rhinoplasty appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd 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).
Rhinoplasty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense plastic surgery used to improve a person's nose:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rhinoplastie |
| German | Nasenplastik, plastische Nasenoperation, Rhinoplastik |
| Portuguese | rinoplastia |
| Spanish | rinoplastia |
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 rhinoplasty come from?
From rhino- + -plasty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).