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nanobot

noun

nanobot is a noun meaning “A very small autonomous robot, typically the size of a biological cell, designed to work alone or in very large numbers to achieve some task” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-N-O-B-O-T, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nanobot is nanobots.

What does nanobot mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A very small autonomous robot, typically the size of a biological cell, designed to work alone or in very large numbers to achieve some task.

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

Forms of nanobot

  • nanobots plural

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

How common is nanobot?

Nanobot appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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).

Where does nanobot come from?

From nano- + -bot.

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