rhinosinusitis
noun
rhinosinusitis is a noun meaning “A rhinitis combined with sinusitis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-H-I-N-O-S-I-N-U-S-I-T-I-S, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rhinosinusitis is rhinosinusitises or rhinosinusitides.
What does rhinosinusitis mean?
noun
- 1
A rhinitis combined with sinusitis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rhinosinusitis
- rhinosinusitises plural
- rhinosinusitides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rhinosinusitis?
Rhinosinusitis appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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).
Rhinosinusitis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense rhinitis combined with sinusitis:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | rinossinusite |
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 rhinosinusitis come from?
From rhino- + sinusitis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).