rhinorrhea
noun
rhinorrhea is spelled R-H-I-N-O-R-R-H-E-A. The wrong spelling people search most is rhinorhea: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Rhinorrhea is a noun meaning “A persistent discharge of watery mucus from the nose; typical of the common cold”. The plural of rhinorrhea is rhinorrheas.
How do you spell rhinorrhea?
Rhinorrhea is spelled R-H-I-N-O-R-R-H-E-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 23 of the searches for rhinorrhea 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 rhinorrhea mean?
noun
- 1
A persistent discharge of watery mucus from the nose; typical of the common cold.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rhinorrhea
- rhinorrheas plural
- rhinorrhoea UK
- rhinorrhœa
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rhinorrhea?
Rhinorrhea appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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).
Rhinorrhea in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense medical symptom:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rhinorrhée |
| Spanish | rinorrea |
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 rhinorrhea come from?
From rhino- + -rrhea, from Ancient Greek: ῥίς (rhís, “nose”) (stem ῥινο (rhino)) with ῥοία (rhoía, “flow”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).