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morphotype

noun, verb

morphotype is spelled M-O-R-P-H-O-T-Y-P-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, morphotype means “Any of a group of different types of individuals of the same species in a population; a morph” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of morphotype is morphotypes.

How many letters and syllables are in morphotype?

Letters10: M-O-R-P-H-O-T-Y-P-E
In writingabout once in every 68 million words; the 258,950th 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 morphotype?

Morphotype appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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 morphotype

  • morphotypes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • morphotyping participle, present
  • morphotyped participle, past

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

What does morphotype mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of a group of different types of individuals of the same species in a population; a morph.

verb

  1. 1

    To sort into such types (and identify them)

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

Where does morphotype come from?

From morpho- + -type.

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

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