zygomatic
/ˌzaɪ.ɡəˈmæt.ɪk/adjective, noun
zygomatic is spelled Z-Y-G-O-M-A-T-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is zigomatic: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 83 of all searches for the word. Zygomatic is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, or located in the area of the zygomatic bone or zygomatic arch”.
How do you spell zygomatic?
Zygomatic is spelled Z-Y-G-O-M-A-T-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 83 of the searches for zygomatic 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 zygomatic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, relating to, or located in the area of the zygomatic bone or zygomatic arch.
noun
- 1
Ellipsis of zygomatic bone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce zygomatic?
- UK /ˌzʌɪ.ɡə(ʊ)ˈmat.ɪk/
- UK /ˌzɪɡ.ə(ʊ)ˈmat.ɪk/
- US /ˌzaɪ.ɡəˈmæt.ɪk/
Zygomatic has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-zygomatic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of zygomatic
- zygomatics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is zygomatic?
Zygomatic appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st 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).
Zygomatic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to the zygoma:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | zygomatique |
| German | zygomatisch |
| Portuguese | zigomático |
| Spanish | cigomático, zigomático (tsigomátiko) |
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 zygomatic come from?
From zygoma + -tic. Doublet of zygomaticus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).