steatorrhea
/ˌstiː.ə.təˈɹiː.ə/noun
steatorrhea is a noun meaning “The presence of an excessive amount of fat in the feces” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-E-A-T-O-R-R-H-E-A, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of steatorrhea is steatorrheas.
What does steatorrhea mean?
noun
- 1
The presence of an excessive amount of fat in the feces
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce steatorrhea?
- /ˌstiː.ə.təˈɹiː.ə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of steatorrhea
- steatorrheas plural
- steatorrhoea
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is steatorrhea?
Steatorrhea appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).
Steatorrhea in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the presence of excessive amount of fat in the feces:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | stéatorrhée |
| German | Fettstuhl, Pankreasstuhl, Stearrhö, Stearrhoe, Steatorrhö, Steatorrhoe |
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 steatorrhea come from?
From steato- + -rrhea.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).