filamentation
noun
filamentation is a noun meaning “The growth of filaments” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-L-A-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of filamentation is filamentations.
What does filamentation mean?
noun
- 1
The growth of filaments.
- 2
An anomalous growth of certain bacteria in which they continue to elongate but do not divide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of filamentation
- filamentations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is filamentation?
Filamentation appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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).