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anthropometry

/ˌænθɹəˈpɑmɪtɹɪ/noun

anthropometry is a noun meaning “The science of measuring the human body to ascertain the ranges and averages of dimensions of the human form, for various purposes including physical…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-H-R-O-P-O-M-E-T-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of anthropometry is anthropometries.

What does anthropometry mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The science of measuring the human body to ascertain the ranges and averages of dimensions of the human form, for various purposes including physical anthropology, epidemiology, the ergonomics of industrial design, and so on.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce anthropometry?

  • UK /ænθɹəˈpɒmɪtɹɪ/
  • US /ˌænθɹəˈpɑmɪtɹɪ/
  • US [ˌɛənθɹəˈpɑmɪtɹɪ]

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-anthropometry.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of anthropometry

  • anthropometries plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is anthropometry?

Anthropometry appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th 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).

Anthropometry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense science of measuring the human body:

LanguageWords
Frenchanthropométrie
GermanAnthropometrie
Portugueseantropometria
Spanishantropometría

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 anthropometry come from?

1839, as anthropo- (“human”) + -metry (“measurement”), from French anthropométrie, from anthropo- + -métrie, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”), influenced by Latin use.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).