karyotype
/ˈkaɹɪə(ʊ)taɪp/noun, verb
karyotype is spelled K-A-R-Y-O-T-Y-P-E. The wrong spelling people search most is karotype: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Karyotype is a noun meaning “The observed characteristics (number, type, shape, etc) of the chromosomes of an individual or species”. The plural of karyotype is karyotypes.
How many letters and syllables are in karyotype?
| Letters | 9: K-A-R-Y-O-T-Y-P-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 9 million words; the 89,388th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, karotype, about 130 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 karyotype?
Karyotype is spelled K-A-R-Y-O-T-Y-P-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for karyotype 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 karyotype?
Karyotype appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 89,388th 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 karyotype?
- UK /ˈkaɹɪə(ʊ)taɪp/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-karyotype.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of karyotype
- karyotypes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- karyotyping participle, present
- karyotyped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does karyotype mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The observed characteristics (number, type, shape, etc) of the chromosomes of an individual or species.
- 2
A record of such characteristics, usually photographic.
- 3
obsoleteA group of individuals or species that have the same chromosomal characteristics.
verb
- 1
To investigate or record such characteristics.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Karyotype in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense characteristics of chromosomes:
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 karyotype come from?
Borrowed from Russian кариотип (kariotip), equivalent to karyo- + -type.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).