phasma

obsolete

phasma is a noun meaning “A phasmid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-A-S-M-A, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of phasma is phasmas.

What does phasma mean?

noun

1
obsoleteA phasmid.

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

How common is phasma?

Phasma appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form in the list.

phasma0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does phasma come from?

From Latin phasma (“ghost, spirit”).

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