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microfiber

noun

microfiber is spelled M-I-C-R-O-F-I-B-E-R: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, microfiber means “Very fine synthetic fiber; cloth made of such fiber” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of microfiber is microfibers.

How many letters and syllables are in microfiber?

Letters10: M-I-C-R-O-F-I-B-E-R
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 56,788th 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 microfiber?

Microfiber appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th 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).

How do you pronounce microfiber?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-microfiber.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of microfiber

  • microfibers plural
  • microfibre

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

What does microfiber mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    USVery fine synthetic fiber; cloth made of such fiber.

    The spilled wine hadn't stained the microfiber couch.

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

Microfiber in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense particularly fine fiber:

LanguageWords
Frenchmicrofibre
GermanMikrofaser

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 microfiber come from?

From micro- + fiber.

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

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