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electromyography

noun

electromyography is spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-O-M-Y-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y: 16 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, electromyography means “A technique for evaluating and recording the activation signal of muscles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of electromyography is electromyographies.

How many letters and syllables are in electromyography?

Letters16: E-L-E-C-T-R-O-M-Y-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 107,757th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is electromyography?

Electromyography appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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).

Forms of electromyography

  • electromyographies plural

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

What does electromyography mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A technique for evaluating and recording the activation signal of muscles.

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

How do you abbreviate electromyography?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of electromyography: EMG.

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

Electromyography in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense diagnostic technique:

LanguageWords
Spanishelectromiografía

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 electromyography come from?

From electro- + myography.

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

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