bryozoan
/ˌbɹɑɪəˈzəʊən/noun, adjective
bryozoan is spelled B-R-Y-O-Z-O-A-N. The wrong spelling people search most is bryozan: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 57 of all searches for the word. Bryozoan is a noun meaning “A member of the phylum Bryozoa of aquatic, usually colonial invertebrates”. The plural of bryozoan is bryozoa or bryozoans.
How many letters and syllables are in bryozoan?
| Letters | 8: B-R-Y-O-Z-O-A-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 25 million words; the 152,206th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, bryozan, about 10 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 bryozoan?
Bryozoan is spelled B-R-Y-O-Z-O-A-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 57 of the searches for bryozoan 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 bryozoan?
Bryozoan appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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 bryozoan?
- US /ˌbɹɑɪəˈzəʊən/
Bryozoan has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of bryozoan
- bryozoa plural
- bryozoans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bryozoan mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A member of the phylum Bryozoa of aquatic, usually colonial invertebrates.
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to the Bryozoa.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bryozoan in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense invertebrate in the phylum Bryozoa:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ectoprocte |
| German | Moostierchen |
| Portuguese | ectoprocto |
| Spanish | briozoo |
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 bryozoan come from?
From Translingual Bryozoa + English -an.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).