xenograft
/ˈzɛnəʊɡɹæft/noun, verb
xenograft is spelled X-E-N-O-G-R-A-F-T. The wrong spelling people search most is xenograph: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Xenograft is a noun meaning “A tissue graft taken from a species different from that of the recipient”. The plural of xenograft is xenografts.
How many letters and syllables are in xenograft?
| Letters | 9: X-E-N-O-G-R-A-F-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 21 million words; the 138,319th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, xenograph, about 30 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 xenograft?
Xenograft is spelled X-E-N-O-G-R-A-F-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for xenograft 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 xenograft?
Xenograft appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th 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).
How do you pronounce xenograft?
- /ˈzɛnəʊɡɹæft/
- /ˈzɛnəʊɡɹɑːft/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of xenograft
- xenografts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- xenografting participle, present
- xenografted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does xenograft mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A tissue graft taken from a species different from that of the recipient.
verb
- 1
To perform a tissue graft using tissue taken from a species different from that of the recipient.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Xenograft in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense A tissue graft taken from a species different from that of the recipient:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Xenotransplantat |
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 xenograft come from?
From xeno- + graft.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).