microflora
"microflora" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“microflora” is uncommon English (frequency #98,445 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,445
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Microscopic life, especially the bacterial colonies found in the gut of normal, healthy animals and humans.
Corpus desk
Index EN-microflora · microflora · English
microflora · rank #98,445 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,445
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH microform
Nearest frequency peer: microform (+1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “microflora”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mesmerize
mesmerize
1,562 corpus weight
- Messa
Messa
1,561 corpus weight
- Meudon
Meudon
1,558 corpus weight
- microflora
microflora
1,556 corpus weight
- microform
microform
1,555 corpus weight
- microstruct…
microstructural
1,554 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “microflora” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microflora |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “microflora” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
microflora is uncommon English at frequency #98,445 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Microscopic life, especially the bacterial colonies found in the gut of normal, healthy animals and humans.".
microflora doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From micro- + flora. The correct English form is microflora, spelled M-I-C-R-O-F-L-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Microscopic life, especially the bacterial colonies found in the gut of normal, healthy animals and humans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how microflora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deionized water was also used to avoid the influence of naturally presented microflora in tap water on the experiment.
Etymology
From micro- + flora.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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