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microdermabrasion

noun

microdermabrasion is spelled M-I-C-R-O-D-E-R-M-A-B-R-A-S-I-O-N: 17 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, microdermabrasion means “Any of several related procedures in which the outermost surface of the skin is removed for cosmetic purposes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of microdermabrasion is microdermabrasions.

How many letters and syllables are in microdermabrasion?

Letters17: M-I-C-R-O-D-E-R-M-A-B-R-A-S-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th 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 microdermabrasion?

Microdermabrasion appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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 microdermabrasion

  • microdermabrasions plural

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

What does microdermabrasion mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of several related procedures in which the outermost surface of the skin is removed for cosmetic purposes

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

Where does microdermabrasion come from?

From micro- + dermabrasion.

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

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