xiphoid
/ˈzɪfɔɪd/adjective, noun
xiphoid is spelled X-I-P-H-O-I-D. The wrong spelling people search most is xyphoid: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Xiphoid is an adjective meaning “Shaped like a sword, ensiform”.
How many letters and syllables are in xiphoid?
| Letters | 7: X-I-P-H-O-I-D |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 35 million words; the 182,517th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, xyphoid, about 180 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 xiphoid?
Xiphoid is spelled X-I-P-H-O-I-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for xiphoid 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 xiphoid?
Xiphoid appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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 xiphoid?
- /ˈzɪfɔɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-xiphoid.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of xiphoid
- xiphoids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does xiphoid mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Shaped like a sword, ensiform.
- 2
Of or relating to the xiphoid process (also called xiphisternum).
noun
- 1
The xiphoid process.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Xiphoid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or relating to the xiphisternum:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | xifoide |
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 xiphoid come from?
From Ancient Greek ξιφοειδής (xiphoeidḗs, “sword-shaped”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).