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microphthalmia

noun

microphthalmia is spelled M-I-C-R-O-P-H-T-H-A-L-M-I-A: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, microphthalmia means “The presence of abnormally small eyes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of microphthalmia is microphthalmias.

How many letters and syllables are in microphthalmia?

Letters14: M-I-C-R-O-P-H-T-H-A-L-M-I-A
In writingabout once in every 59 million words; the 240,237th 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 microphthalmia?

Microphthalmia appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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 microphthalmia

  • microphthalmias plural

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

What does microphthalmia mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The presence of abnormally small eyes.

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

Where does microphthalmia come from?

From micr- + ophthalmia.

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

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