thoracentesis
noun
thoracentesis is spelled T-H-O-R-A-C-E-N-T-E-S-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is toracentesis: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 625 of all searches for the word. Thoracentesis is a noun meaning “A medical procedure involving needle drainage of air or fluid from the pleural space”. The plural of thoracentesis is thoracenteses.
How many letters and syllables are in thoracentesis?
| Letters | 13: T-H-O-R-A-C-E-N-T-E-S-I-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 62 million words; the 246,401st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, toracentesis, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell thoracentesis?
Thoracentesis is spelled T-H-O-R-A-C-E-N-T-E-S-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 632 of the searches for thoracentesis 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 thoracentesis?
Thoracentesis appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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 thoracentesis
- thoracenteses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does thoracentesis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A medical procedure involving needle drainage of air or fluid from the pleural space.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Thoracentesis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense medical procedure:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | toracocentese |
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 thoracentesis come from?
By surface analysis, thora(co)- + -centesis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).