gastrulation
noun
gastrulation is spelled G-A-S-T-R-U-L-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is gastulation: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 46 of all searches for the word. Gastrulation is a noun meaning “The stage of embryo development at which a gastrula is formed from the blastula by the inward migration of…”. The plural of gastrulation is gastrulations.
How many letters and syllables are in gastrulation?
| Letters | 12: G-A-S-T-R-U-L-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 124,184th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, gastulation, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 gastrulation?
Gastrulation is spelled G-A-S-T-R-U-L-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 46 of the searches for gastrulation 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 gastrulation?
Gastrulation appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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 gastrulation?
Gastrulation has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-gastrulation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of gastrulation
- gastrulations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does gastrulation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The stage of embryo development at which a gastrula is formed from the blastula by the inward migration of cells.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Gastrulation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense stage of embryo development:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | gastrulation |
| German | Gastrulation |
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 gastrulation come from?
From German Gastrulation, coined by Ernst Haeckel in his 1872 work "Biology of Calcareous Sponges" (see also gastrula).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).