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microfracture

noun

microfracture is spelled M-I-C-R-O-F-R-A-C-T-U-R-E: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, microfracture means “A very small, or fine, fracture, especially one of a series in bone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of microfracture is microfractures.

How many letters and syllables are in microfracture?

Letters13: M-I-C-R-O-F-R-A-C-T-U-R-E
In writingabout once in every 22 million words; the 141,699th 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 microfracture?

Microfracture appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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 microfracture

  • microfractures plural

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

What does microfracture mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A very small, or fine, fracture, especially one of a series in bone.

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

Where does microfracture come from?

From micro- + fracture.

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

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