steatosis
noun
steatosis is spelled S-T-E-A-T-O-S-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is statosis: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 167 of all searches for the word. Steatosis is a noun meaning “The abnormal retention of lipids by a cell or organ”. The plural of steatosis is steatoses.
How do you spell steatosis?
Steatosis is spelled S-T-E-A-T-O-S-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 166 of the searches for steatosis 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 steatosis mean?
noun
- 1
The abnormal retention of lipids by a cell or organ.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of steatosis
- steatoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is steatosis?
Steatosis appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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).
Steatosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense over-retention of lipids:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | stéatose |
| Portuguese | esteatose |
| Spanish | esteatosis |
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 steatosis come from?
From steato- + -osis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).