microglia
/ˈmaɪ.kɹoʊˌɡli.ə/noun
microglia is spelled M-I-C-R-O-G-L-I-A. The wrong spelling people search most is microglias: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 75 of all searches for the word. Microglia is a noun meaning “The glial cells of the immune system; they can function as phagocytes”.
How many letters and syllables are in microglia?
| Letters | 9: M-I-C-R-O-G-L-I-A |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 76,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, microglias, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell microglia?
Microglia is spelled M-I-C-R-O-G-L-I-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 75 of the searches for microglia in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is microglia?
Microglia appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 76,798th 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 microglia?
- /ˈmaɪ.kɹoʊˌɡli.ə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does microglia mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The glial cells of the immune system; they can function as phagocytes
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does microglia come from?
From micro- + glia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).