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thermotherapy

noun

thermotherapy is spelled T-H-E-R-M-O-T-H-E-R-A-P-Y: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, thermotherapy means “The use of heat to treat disease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of thermotherapy is thermotherapies.

How many letters and syllables are in thermotherapy?

Letters13: T-H-E-R-M-O-T-H-E-R-A-P-Y
In writingabout once in every 65 million words; the 252,559th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is thermotherapy?

Thermotherapy 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).

Forms of thermotherapy

  • thermotherapies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does thermotherapy mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The use of heat to treat disease

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Thermotherapy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the use of heat to treat disease:

LanguageWords
Spanishtermoterapia

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 thermotherapy come from?

From thermo- + therapy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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