varicocele
/ˈvɛɹəkoʊˌsil/noun
varicocele is spelled V-A-R-I-C-O-C-E-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is variocele: about 360 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Varicocele is a noun meaning “Varicose veins in the area of the scrotum”. The plural of varicocele is varicoceles.
How do you spell varicocele?
Varicocele is spelled V-A-R-I-C-O-C-E-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 20 of the searches for varicocele 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 varicocele mean?
noun
- 1
Varicose veins in the area of the scrotum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce varicocele?
- UK /ˈvaɹɪkə(ʊ)siːl/
- US /ˈvɛɹəkoʊˌsil/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of varicocele
- varicoceles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is varicocele?
Varicocele appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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).
Varicocele in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense varicose veins in the area of the scrotum:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | varicocele |
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 varicocele come from?
From varico- + -cele.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).