oculomotor
/ˌɑk.jəl.əˈmoʊ.tɚ/adjective
oculomotor is spelled O-C-U-L-O-M-O-T-O-R. The wrong spelling people search most is occulomotor: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Oculomotor is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to movement of the eyeball”.
How many letters and syllables are in oculomotor?
| Letters | 10: O-C-U-L-O-M-O-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, occulomotor, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell oculomotor?
Oculomotor is spelled O-C-U-L-O-M-O-T-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for oculomotor 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 oculomotor?
Oculomotor appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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 oculomotor?
- UK /ˈɒk.jʊl.ə(ʊ)ˌməʊ.tə/
- US /ˌɑk.jəl.əˈmoʊ.tɚ/
Oculomotor has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-oculomotor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with oculomotor?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as oculomotor from its last stressed vowel (/oʊtəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does oculomotor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to movement of the eyeball.
- 2
Of or pertaining to the oculomotor nerve.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Oculomotor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to eye movement:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | oculomoteur |
| Spanish | oculomotor |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does oculomotor come from?
From oculo- (“relating to the eye”) + motor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).