sphygmomanometer
sphyg·mo·ma·nom·e·ter/ˌsfɪɡmoʊməˈnɑmɪtɚ/noun
sphygmomanometer is spelled S-P-H-Y-G-M-O-M-A-N-O-M-E-T-E-R, 6 syllables: sphyg·mo·ma·nom·e·ter. The wrong spelling people search most is sphygmanometer: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 189 of all searches for the word. Sphygmomanometer is a noun meaning “A device used to measure blood pressure”. The plural of sphygmomanometer is sphygmomanometers.
How many letters and syllables are in sphygmomanometer?
| Letters | 16: S-P-H-Y-G-M-O-M-A-N-O-M-E-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6: sphyg·mo·ma·nom·e·ter |
| In writing | about once in every 36 million words; the 184,844th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, sphygmanometer, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell sphygmomanometer?
Sphygmomanometer is spelled S-P-H-Y-G-M-O-M-A-N-O-M-E-T-E-R. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 94 of the searches for sphygmomanometer 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 sphygmomanometer?
Sphygmomanometer appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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 sphygmomanometer?
- UK /ˌsfɪɡməʊməˈnɒmɪtə/
- US /ˌsfɪɡmoʊməˈnɑmɪtɚ/
Sphygmomanometer has 6 syllables, split sphyg·mo·ma·nom·e·ter in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-ncalif-sphigmomanomter.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sphygmomanometer?
10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sphygmomanometer from its last stressed vowel (/ɑmɪtəɹ/):
- thermometer
- kilometer
- spectrometer
- micrometer
- magnetometer
- potentiometer
- photometer
- gasometer
- manometer
- pyrometer
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of sphygmomanometer
- sphygmomanometers plural
- sphygmomanometre
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sphygmomanometer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A device used to measure blood pressure.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sphygmomanometer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense device to measure blood pressure:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sphygmomanomètre, tensiomètre |
| German | Blutdruckmessgerät |
| Portuguese | esfigmomanómetro, esfigmomanômetro |
| Spanish | esfigmomanómetro, esfingomanómetro, tensiómetro, baumanómetro, manguito de la presión arterial, brazalete de presión sanguínea |
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 sphygmomanometer come from?
From sphygmo- (“pulse”) + manometer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).