heterozygosity
noun
heterozygosity is spelled H-E-T-E-R-O-Z-Y-G-O-S-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is heterozygocity: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Heterozygosity is a noun meaning “The condition of being heterozygous”. The plural of heterozygosity is heterozygosities.
How many letters and syllables are in heterozygosity?
| Letters | 14: H-E-T-E-R-O-Z-Y-G-O-S-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 16 million words; the 121,279th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, heterozygocity, 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 heterozygosity?
Heterozygosity is spelled H-E-T-E-R-O-Z-Y-G-O-S-I-T-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for heterozygosity 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 heterozygosity?
Heterozygosity appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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 heterozygosity
- heterozygosities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does heterozygosity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The condition of being heterozygous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Heterozygosity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the condition of being heterozygous:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hétérozygotie |
| German | Heterozygotie, Mischerbigkeit, Heterozygosität |
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 heterozygosity come from?
From heterozygous + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).