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macrophotography

noun

macrophotography is a noun meaning “Photography that is done up close; close-up photography” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-C-R-O-P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does macrophotography mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Photography that is done up close; close-up photography.

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

Forms of macrophotography

  • macro-photography

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

How common is macrophotography?

Macrophotography appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).

Macrophotography in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense close-up photography:

LanguageWords
Frenchmacrophotographie
GermanMakrofotografie

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.