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malrotation

noun

malrotation is spelled M-A-L-R-O-T-A-T-I-O-N: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, malrotation means “An anomaly of rotation; aberrant movement of parts in a rotating fashion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of malrotation is malrotations.

How many letters and syllables are in malrotation?

Letters11: M-A-L-R-O-T-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 76 million words; the 275,970th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is malrotation?

Malrotation appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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 malrotation

  • malrotations plural

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

What does malrotation mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An anomaly of rotation; aberrant movement of parts in a rotating fashion.

    intestinal malrotation

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

Where does malrotation come from?

From mal- + rotation.

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

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