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mesoderm

noun

mesoderm is spelled M-E-S-O-D-E-R-M: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mesoderm means “One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which will produce, through development, many internal organs of the adult, e.g.…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mesoderm is mesoderms.

How many letters and syllables are in mesoderm?

Letters8: M-E-S-O-D-E-R-M
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 75,877th 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 mesoderm?

Mesoderm appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th 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 mesoderm

  • mesoderms plural

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

What does mesoderm mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which will produce, through development, many internal organs of the adult, e.g. muscles, spine and the circulatory system.

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

Mesoderm in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense tissue produced by gastrulation:

LanguageWords
Frenchmésoderme
GermanMesoderm
Portuguesemesoderme, mesoderma
Spanishmesodermo

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 mesoderm come from?

From meso- + -derm.

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

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