microbiota
"microbiota" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“microbiota” is uncommon English (frequency #51,245 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,245
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The microbial community that inhabits a multi-cellular organism, whether the entire organism or a specific body surface.
Corpus desk
Index EN-microbiota · microbiota · English
microbiota · rank #51,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,245
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mids
Nearest frequency peer: mids (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “microbiota”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Megumi
Megumi
48,759 corpus weight
- methionine
methionine
48,758 corpus weight
- microbiota
microbiota
48,756 corpus weight
- mids
mids
48,755 corpus weight
- midwinter
midwinter
48,754 corpus weight
- miko
miko
48,753 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “microbiota” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microbiota |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “microbiota” in English
Rare enough to double-check
microbiota is uncommon English at frequency #51,245 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The microbial community that inhabits a multi-cellular organism, whether the entire organism or a specific body surface.".
No misspelling variants are generated for microbiota in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From micro- + biota. The correct English form is microbiota, spelled M-I-C-R-O-B-I-O-T-A.
Definition
- 1The microbial community that inhabits a multi-cellular organism, whether the entire organism or a specific body surface.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how microbiota appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Caesarean babies eventually acquire the same mix of microbes as those born vaginally — by a year, their microbiota are usually indistinguishable.
Etymology
From micro- + biota.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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